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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I can’t speak for all militaries, but for the US fighter aircraft have had a gun camera in them since just before WW2. When the trigger is pulled a camera takes pictures and often the damage to the enemy aircraft is recorded.
After the war, records were compared, adjustments made
Now a days we have HUD cameras that record both the heads up display and the radar display, as well as air borne tracking aircraft and ground radar to confirm destruction of an aircraft.
Snipers generally operate with a spotter who is also a qualified sniper and something snipers do is to record every shot they take in a log book. If the Shooter records a kill and the Spotter records the shooter getting a kill, it’s a kill.
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