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Ahah, some hope for my sanity at last!! I thought the article may have been related to the business of Werner Molders flying with the Condor Legion which was in the news a couple of years back, but I can't find anywhere that says how many times he was shot down. BUT..............I did find...

No it was definitely only 1 or 2 years ago in a newspaper. It must have been WW2 because they definitely wouldn't have survived 40 shoot downs in WWI! For some reason I think he was German. Maybe it was just a misprint or something, I remember taking a double take when i read it thinking 'HOW...

I'm desperately trying to remember something I think I may have read in the Times obituary pages in the last couple of years. It was for a fighter pilot, and I remember it said something staggering like he was shot down something crazy like 40 times. It's one of those things you have to look...