Adriano Visconti. Kill Tally

[CD Baumann]

So I have this old book called Flying Aces of WWII where it discusses an Italian ace Maggiore (IIRC)Adriano Viscounti. It would seem for a time he was considered Italy's highest scoring ace. However the short article stated that according to his own log book he only shot down 10 planes making him the 47th highest scoring Italian ace of the war.

In spite of this there's still blogs and articles out there listing him as Italy's top scorer.

Was the above a hoax? The book was wrote in the early 2000's.

 

[fubar57]

According to this, he shot down 15 in the C.200 and 11 in the C.205 and Bf109G-10

Daniele Sabatini's Blohm & Voss BV P.207.03 Luft Art Images

 

[CD Baumann]

According to this, he shot down 15 in the C.200 and 11 in the C.205 and Bf109G-10

Daniele Sabatini's Blohm & Voss BV P.207.03 Luft Art Images

That was one of the articles I was referring to.
I don't trust the book mentioned above because it also stated there was only one US night fighter ace in Europe which I recently found to be untrue.

 

[fubar57]

This book, published in 2000 says his score was 10

 

[SuperAereo]

His score was inflated by some Italian authors in the '70s and '80s.