hhm@ihlpy.ATT.COM (Mayo) (06/10/89)
From: hhm@ihlpy.ATT.COM (Mayo)
Interviews with all of the surviving German aces will invariably
cover the subject of their high kill numbers. This is a subject that
will raise their blood pressure considerably. Many feel that there
has been an effort to downgrade their accomplishments, such as the
false claims that kills were added up by number of engines, wildly
inflated for propaganda reasons, etc. As one poster pointed out, the
requirements for counting a kill were more strict for the Germans.
Also, no ground destroyed aircraft were counted. All of their victories
were genuine, and against pilots who could shoot back. Most of the
aces, including Galland, feel that Werner Molders was the best of all of
them, and that had he lived, he would have scored the highest.
Larry