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Dick Bong.
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They basically got wrekt over time by superior firepower and raw numbers, but also this problem.https://twitter.com/LjubicDf/status/1461651929256321029 …
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Yeah, it's kind of a fake number; you'd want to adjust by mission and on top of that what they're shooting down. Like if one side is escorting bombers and transporters and the other side is just trying to shoot them down it's going to end up with big differences. KDR != good
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I should point out extremely quickly, 99% of kills lodged here were against the Soviet Air Force, which only started to have the means to train more proper tactics in late ‘44-and of war
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Additionally the Soviets had penal air battalions similar to the infamous ground ones. Their job was to provide close air support over the most dangerous battlefields, and as such were really only taught to take off, fly straight and level, and strafe ground targets
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America rotated its aces out to teach new cohorts of fighter pilots. Macro beats micro every time.
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How much was this running up the score vs hapless Russians? I also don't completely trust German military records at the time (more suspicious than e.g. contemperaneous US/UK records)
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Yeah, looking up the top guy 98% of his kills were vs soviets.
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