RE: Unkown Ace and Napalm

["Diego Zampini" <dzampini@hotmail.com>]

Hi, Dan:
Thank you very much for the info about Pomaz. :-)
Regarding his claims, certainly there is a good chance that the F-86 of 
George Wendling on April 13 1952 and one of the F-84s on May 17 had been 
actually victims of Pomaz (by the way, I think that his possible victim in 
that last date could be the F-84D of James Smith). But I guess that Walker 
Mahurin could have been shot down by Major A.R.Proudnikov of 821st IAP (the 
´Red Devils…´ book mention such theory, and also mention the shootdown 
of Pomaz’s MiG but do not credit him any Sabre kill that day, but of 
course if you had had direct access to the Soviet records, you should have 
more accurate info) and the F-86 of Patrick Ellis could be also victim of 
Arkadii S. Boitsov of 16th IAP, who knows?

>How many of these claims are factual are anybody's guess.
>On any of these days, you will find many more claims than
>losses.  Of interest, Soviet pilots were awarded 1,500 rubles
>for each shot down aircraft.

That is true. But it happened both sides: on May 13 the MiG of Pomaz was the 
only Soviet loss, but there were 5 Sabre pilots claiming for one MiG kill 
each. And without need of money award.
Thank you very much again, :-)
Regards.
Diego

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