BOB: Why Are There Differences?

[Civettone]

Originally Posted by Morai_Milo

I did not know this was a place of that kind. The only person that I allow to respond to my privates is the wife.

Kris

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

[Njaco]

*Jabo or Wespe or ? whomever you are respond to the moderators privates at once or you will suffer the wrath of the moderating team !!*

Wow, didn't mean to start something!

*Confusing eh? that is why I agree with Wespe; count the KIA/MIA and PoW
and if the pilot was a PoW he can be counted as a loss just as well.*

and sometimes that can be confusing. I've found pilots who were dead recording kills months later. Tony Wood's Loss lists have sevral of these.

It was just sumptin I was wunderin about. I guess thats why research is what it is, otherwise might be boring

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Originally Posted by Njaco

*Jabo or Wespe or ? whomever you are respond to the moderators privates at once or you will suffer the wrath of the moderating team !!*

Wow, didn't mean to start something!

You didn't. His stupid games is what started it.

[Tony Williams]

I'm not an expert on this but I do know that some people have done an enormous amount of research to pin down the exact figures. I recall reading that they believe they have got as close as possible, with very few remaining questions.

What you have to remember is that very few authors do original research: it takes a huge amount of time to find, slog through and analyse the sources from both sides, so most authors just copy whatever's in some other book

Tony Williams: Military gun and ammunition website and discussion forum

[HealzDevo]

Even with original research it is doubtful that there could be an accurate figure due to the factors mentioned above. The Allied Reports unfortunately can't be itemized by serial numbers of the German Aircraft shot down and vice versa and thus it becomes a question of trying to minimize the errors in the figures.