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Originally posted by C.Evans:
[QB] Crazy, the German Military had a much more harder system set in place for confirming "kills" than did the Allies.
For instance, their confirmation rules are very different from ours. For someone who claims a "kill" he needed no less that two seperate sources that saw him do it. Then, that claim had to be verified by the soldiers commanding officer.
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Sounds good, until you look at the claims made by Luftwaffe pilots in the Battle of Britain.
For example, Luftwaffe pilots were credited with shooting down 381 RAF aircraft in combat between the 10 July and 11 August 1940 during the Channel phase of the battle. The true total of British losses in this period was 114 fighters and 64 bombers, a total of 178, and a number of the bombers were lost to flak.