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April 28, 2006

Posted by Bill

(Via the LB)

One quibble: to my knowledge, ground targets didn't count towards the five kills needed to become an American ace, otherwise my grandfather would have been rated as one before he died, having had four aerial kills and multiple ground kills.

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Awesome! Thanks.

Posted by: Alain at April 28, 2006 05:23 PM

You're correct, Bill. It must be a piloted, enemy-made craft in the air for it to count as a kill. The 8th AF credited its pilots with ground kills during WWII, but after the war the USAF retroactively pulled credits for ground kills and stripped the ace status from many of the 8th AF pilots.

Posted by: SeanH at April 28, 2006 10:26 PM

Oops. Also, the aircraft must be armed or carrying enemy military personnel.

Posted by: SeanH at April 28, 2006 10:28 PM

Wikipedia says that 345 of Hartmann's kills were Soviet--virtually all of them. Without taking away from his achievement or skill, one suspects at least part of his number had something to do with the quality of Soviet planes and pilots.

Posted by: Dean Esmay at April 29, 2006 01:27 AM

Oops. Also, the aircraft must be armed or carrying enemy military personnel.

Heh. Reminds me of this.

Posted by: dorkafork at April 29, 2006 01:58 AM

Heh!

Posted by: SeanH at April 30, 2006 02:35 PM