Today, some aviation historians and veterans dispute the "astronomical" number of victories of the fascist experts.

Below we present some articles, we do not answer this exciting question, suggesting the reader to draw his own conclusion...

• Aces. Figures and Facts. /Yu.I. Mukhin/
• Aces Against Aces. Counting Luftwaffe Victories.
• Order of Awarding No. 0299 dated August 19, 1941
• Order of Awarding No. 294 of October 8, 1943
• Order No. 0685 of September 9, 1942 On the establishment of the concept of a sortie for fighters.
• Aces Against Aces. Counting the Victories of the Red Army Air Force. /O.S. Smyslov/
• Aces Against Aces. The Price of Victory. /O.S. Smyslov/
• Reasons for the Different Effectiveness of Soviet and German Fighters. /Andrey Smirnov./
• Equation with One Unknown, ... /Yuri Rybin/
• Bf 109E/F vs Yak-1/7. Statistics and Analysis. /Dmitriy Khazanov./
• War in the Air Through the Eyes of an Eyewitness. /V.M. Sinayskiy./

April 04, 2023

As far as I remember, now I could not find the exact source, Alexander Ivanovich Pokryshkin was also interested in the question of the veracity of the downed Soviet fighters claimed by the Germans. The data he checked, for the most part, were confirmed ...
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