As the fine gentlemen explains two pilots can claim the same victory, it happened allot, Ive seen it in the AAR's by our squadron and the stats showed that two had attacked the same only 1 aircraft not 2. All sides over claimed but no one can refute that the German scoring system was the most robust...
I think allot of the over claiming in Africa was due to the lack of personnel on the ground who would have been witnesses had the theatre not been so open and vast. Another theory I have is if an aircraft vanishes over a sandune and the sun reflects and gives a "flash" it would be easy to think he had crashed and exploded.
Theres a brilliant chapter in Mike Spick's book about what actually constitutes a victory... I dont think a victory is as clear cut as the destruction of an aircraft although the airforces of the world certainly did and do think so...
Your a football fan arn't you Osprey...
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