Like flying aces, or snipers, where it may be uncertain who landed the killing blow on a certain foe, or if that foe actually died, or there’s the possibility that no one else was around to see that this person actually killed someone? The thought just came up while I was watching the Sabaton History video on Francis Pegahmagabow : [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJPyLlxj8nY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJPyLlxj8nY) .
He is apparently credited with 378 kills. How do they accept that number and hold any faith in its accuracy?
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different countries had different rules. at least in world war 2, typically a victory only counts if pilot ejection, explosion, or crash is recorded on gun cam or vouched by another pilot who was there. the US and britain had half-credit systems where two pilots could share a kill and get half a credit for each. if no one else was around and it wasn’t on a gun cam, you couldn’t claim it (in theory, in practice overclaiming was common. germany is famous for it but everybody did it.)
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