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According to Obermaier, 103 Luftwaffe pilots were credited with more than 100 aerial victories. [3] Further more, the US historian David T. Zabecki states that 105 Luftwaffe pilots were credited with more than 100 aerial victories, [4] adding Friedrich Wachowiak with 140 aerial victories, [5] and Paul-Heinrich Dähne with 100 aerial victories, who were not listed by Obermaier.
Pages in category "Lists of World War II aerial victories" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
A formation of Spitfires shortly before World War II. This is a list of World War II battles encompassing land, naval, and air engagements as well as campaigns, operations, defensive lines and sieges. Campaigns generally refer to broader strategic operations conducted over a large bit of territory and over a long period.
Fighter aces in World War II had tremendously varying kill scores, affected as they were by many factors: the pilot's skill level, the performance of the airplane the pilot flew and the planes they flew against, how long they served, their opportunity to meet the enemy in the air (Allied to Axis disproportion), whether they were the formation's leader or a wingman, the standards their air ...
According to US historian David T. Zabecki, Galland was credited with 104 aerial victories. [2] Mathews and Foreman, authors of Luftwaffe Aces – Biographies and Victory Claims, researched the German Federal Archives and found records for 100 aerial victory claims, plus nine further unconfirmed claims, all of which claimed on the Western Front.
In World War II, overclaims were a common problem. Nearly 50% of Royal Air Force (RAF) victories in the Battle of Britain, for instance, do not tally statistically with recorded German losses; but some at least of this apparent over-claiming can be tallied with known wrecks, and German aircrew known to have been in British PoW camps. [12]
World War II aerial operations and battles of the Eastern Front (2 C, 33 P) Pages in category "Aerial operations and battles of World War II" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
Lists of World War II aerial victories (20 P) Pages in category "Lists of aerial victories" ... List of aerial victories during the Indo-Pakistani war of 1971;