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Originally Posted by WWFlybert
I think this is a good idea, and possibly the only *easy* one
though *historically* a confirmed victory usually did go to the last pilot that caused damage, and the pilots were more concerned about knocking the enemy's plane out of action than getting credit for the kill
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AFAIK in RAF and USAAF statistics, if several pilots shot down a plane and this was confirmed, all got 1/2, 1/3 or 1/4 of a kill, depending if 2, 3 or 4 pilots were involved into the kill. So you can find pilots with 15+1/3 , or 7+3/4 kill, or other even funnier fractional numbers.
In the Luftwaffe, once big USAAF and RAF, hard-to- kill, well defended, though bombers B-17, B-24 etc. started to attack, even a more complicated system was developped to credit the german pilots: from just having got a bomber separated from its "box" or formation, to finally make it crash into the ground, all pilots involved were credited, retributed and decorated according to their contribution.
09-30-2009, 08:55 PM
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