revising air war kill tallies

[jose castillo <felizguajiro@yahoo.com>]

hello to the group, this is my first message here.
korean war jet ace harold fisher once said, "it is
interesting to compare our claims of victory with the
numbers from the other side. we found many aerial
victories that needed recounting." in this spirit, i
am trying to come up with more accurate kill tallies
for US korean war aces, based on the best data
currently available. my friend diego from argentina, a
contributor here, has provided the information. what
we have is a provisional list of the top five american
aces, giving them the benefit of the doubt for all
their chinese kills, but modifying their soviet kills
to come up with a new total for each. (the chinese
records, diego tells me, provide only monthly kill
totals, not day-to-day, making systematic correlation
with US records difficult.)  

*joe mcconnell, 16 kills: 9 of his 16 claims were
actually against soviet MiGs. 6 are fully admitted by
the russians and 3 were overclaims. his score would be
13.

*james jabara, 15 kills: he claimed 6 MiGs in his
first tour, but only 4 actually happened. all his
kills in his 2nd tour were against chinese, so his
tally would be 13.

*pete fernandez, 14.5 kills: 4 of his air battles were
against soviets, and he scored in 3 of them. the march
9, 1953 kill was an overclaim, so pete's score is 13
1/2.

*george davis, 14 kills: he was credited with 11 MiGs
and 3 tupolevs; he actually got 10 MiGs and 2
tupolevs. his score is 12

*royal baker, 13 kills: 5 of his claims were against
soviet planes, and 3 actually happened. his score is
11.

NEW TALLIES:
fernandez 13.5
mcconnell 13
jabara 13
davis 12
baker 11

what do folks think of this? as for the chinese data,
any ideas for incorporating it into my revisionist
history? thanks! jose c.
 




 

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