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Re: Curtiss P-40 top ten ace list
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thanks for your answer. Have you noticed that wikipedia tells the story about the fake but nonetheless indicates the faked date of birth in the parentheses and in the profile ? ;-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Caldwell It surprises me that one year made the difference between being accepted into fighter training and not being accepted. Have a nice Thursday, Michael |
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Hello there Gentlemen,
by courtesy of Jim and Russ I learned more about the locations of the kills of the P-40 aces over Australia&Oceania. Thus, I could complete my breakdown of top P-40 pilots by continent. The top P-40 pilots on each continent were: • Africa: Clive Caldwell 20,5 P-40 kills over Libya and Egypt (includes ½ kill during convoy patrol) • Europe: Nikolai Zelenov 19,23 P-40 kills over the European part of Russia • Asia: David Hill 13,25 P-40 kills over Malaysia, Myanmar and China • Australia & Oceania: Ernest Harris 10 P-40 kills over Papua New Guinea • America: John Cape and Kenneth Boomer 1 P-40 kill over Alaska each (and any other pilot who scored one P-40 kill over Alaska) I wonder if the location of Clive Caldwell's convoy patrol kill (16Aug1941) can still be determined. Have a nice weekend, Michael |
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On the other side of the coin Hermann Foerster of 2./JG 27 shot down AK554 of Sgt. G M McCullough KIA (badly damaged, crashed on landing) Location of Foerster's kill was E of Ras Azzaz SO: LOCATION = Ras el Mil - Ras Azzaz sector According to Kristen Alexander, the kill is recorded in 250 sqn's ORB as 19 August. Sources: Clive Caldwell Air Ace by Kristen Alexander A History of the Mediterranean Air War vol 1 by Shores, Massimello and Guest It has to be said.... ...Making the outlay and buying some of the better sources would do you good, Michael, and it's not the first time you've been told that. |
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Nick it is not your provenance to make such statements. Either answer the point directly or do not. You are not the judge of whether anyone needs more references or whatever.
One more of these snotty comments is going to get you banned. |
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In the course of answering the queries on this thread I even contacted Caldwell's biographer. That represents no mean effort in that you don't get to know these people without putting in considerable hard yards. This is also what I am capable of and have done many times: http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?t=51306 ....Versus 800 posts worth of "please do my homework for me" All yours mate. See you in six months. Last edited by Nick Hector; 9th June 2018 at 16:20. |
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Good morning Gentlemen,
by the way, for my continent top aces I used the continental borders of today. I know they were of little significance in the days of WW2 but for my thought experiment I had to devise rules. As I wrote in post32 the Caldwell kill whose location I'm most interested in is his shared Fiat G.50 on 16Aug1941. I'll keep at it, Michael |
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p.245 of "A History of the Mediterranean Air War vol 1" does not credit him with any kind of victory on 16 August. Instead, a G.50 the next day, on 17 August during a convoy patrol. PLUS p.246 states a Bf109 on 18 August 1941 that was claimed as a damaged. Sgt. R T C Whittle claimed a probable in the same engagement. That particular convoy was off Ras-el-Mil On the other side of the coin Hermann Foerster of 2./JG 27 shot down AK554 of Sgt. G M McCullough KIA (badly damaged, crashed on landing) Location of Foerster's kill was E of Ras Azzaz NOTHING for 16 August in that source.... Kristen Alexander is the BEST published source on Caldwell Shores et al is the BEST published source on the Mediterranean air war |
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Good morning Gentlemen,
currently, I'm contemplating about David Hill's first kill which I read as being scored over "Rahang". I know only of a Rahang in Malaysia and I am surprised that the AVG operated so far south. Have a nice Tuesday, Michael |
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Soviet Tomahawk / Kittyhawk Aces
1. Pokryshev, Petr Afanasevich / Покрышев Пётр Афанасьевич = 14+6 2. Mikhalin, Mikhail Fedorovich / Михалин Михаил Федорович = 14+2 3. Litavrin, Sergei Gavrilovich / Литаврин Сергей Гаврилович = 13+0 4. Mitrokhin, Vasilii Borisovich / Митрохин Василий Борисович = 12+0 4. Repkin, Petr Afanasevich / Репкин Пётр Афанасьевич = 12+0 5. Zzotov, Viktor Alexeevich / Зотов Виктор Алексеевич = 11+11 Source: Bykov, Mikhail: All aces of Stalin 1936-1953, Moscow: Yauza, 2014. Быков, Михаил Юрьевич: Все асы Сталина 1936 – 1953 гг., Серия: Элитная энциклопедия ВВС. Такой книги еще не было!, Издательство: Яуза-Пресс, 2014. ISBN: 978-5-699-67789-4
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Jan Safarik is a forum member ?
Cool ! I like your website very much, especially those topics that are rarely discussed elsewhere. You're right, Mr Bykov ranks his aces by their individual kills. For my own personal notes I chose to add the decimals of the shared kills to the individual kills. It's just more of my liking. I think we can safely say that Nikolai Zelenov scored above Europe only because the German advance was stopped before it reached Asian ground. To find the locations of his 17+8sh P-40 kills on Russian maps was rather difficult for me because I'm not very good in Russian. I found all those 25 places in what is today Russia but I cannot exclude that there are places of the same name in countries like Belarus or Ukraine and that these places are the correct ones. http://soviet-aces-1936-53.ru/abc/zh/zelenov_na.htm Kind regards, Michael |
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