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Good morning Luftwaffle8,
it's cool you knew McCampbell. This website http://acepilots.com/usn_mccampbell.html indicates that he was married only four times. Should this be corrected or could you imagine he exaggerated his marriage score to become a wedding-ace ? ;-) Do you know what his "lenghty illness" from which he died, was ? Kind regards, Michael |
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Good morning Gentlemen,
OSPREY will publish a Zero volume in the Aircraft of the Aces series next April: https://www.amazon.de/Zero-sen-Aces-...=a6m+zero+aces I hope it'll make definite statements about the scores of Iwamoto, Nishizawa and Sakai. Cheers, Michael |
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Good Morning
does anybody have any contacts with books stores in Japan that might have a copy of his book? please let me know thank you in advance. Santiago |
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Do you mean Iwamoto's logbook ?
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Every nation overclaimed. Look at the insane claims bomber crews claimed. Those claims, like most a ludicrous.
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I'm a bit disappointed because the new Zero book by OSPREY
https://www.amazon.de/Zero-Sen-Aces-...gateway&sr=8-1 mostly adopts the scores indicated by Hata, Izawa & Shores. Michael |
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Well of course--it's not like they can follow a diving aircraft down trailing exhausts if they think they succeed in hitting it! Not to mention that if you're talking about bomber gunners you've probably got every gunner in the whole formation all claiming they hit an aircraft that actually got destroyed. Let's take a more 'rational' approach, and stick to 'pursuit pilot' and their claims |
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One fellow wrote that Iwamoto's 216+16sh kills are rather "attacks" than shootdowns. But the score of 80 indicated by Hata, Izawa & Shores is an arbritrary figure, isn't it ?
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