I can't see the correlation between many T-34s being produced- and believability of kill claims??
The two are completely unrelated!!
I tend to believe
some of the very high kill claims by german "aces"... but then again, there are many that simply don't add up.
For one thing, if one believes many of the books out there, almost ALL the german tank aces had kill #s that were
evenly divisible by 10!! Gee... that seems like the numbers may be rounded out, eh?
Another factor... How would it ever be possible to verify all of one's kill claims? Many of these tank battles happened at long range, under difficult conditions, and in many cases, with the german forces retreating from the battlefield once the engagement finished.
But somehow we are to believe that the forces involved were able to accurately count the number of tanks destroyed in every engagement??
another 2 cents from even lower in the bowl...