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In surveys after the initial phase of the Korea War, ie after the North Koreans had been been defeated, before the Chinese entered, tanks were relatively seldom used by the Communists after that, 102 tanks were credited to a/c by USAF wreck survey teams. Claims of tanks destroyed by a/c in the same period have been given as 1,134 (Simon Dunston, Armour in Korea), but both the destroyed tank total and claims could be re-examined. Anyway the general situation of claiming accuracy was similar to WWII, and not comparable to aerial claim accuracy (captured NK reports show the much smaller US claims against NK Yak-9/11's and Il-10's in the opening weeks of the war were largely accurate).critical thinking,
Excellent posts. One reason for the heavy overclaiming was probably that any disabled vehicle would have been attacked again and again by subsequent ground attack aircraft. I believe that this was found to be the case in Korea, where similar overclaiming occurred.
that don't include the small stuff,i.e.MBTThat sort of number (9 for gunfire) wouldn't be unexpected.The Germans and Italians didn't sink much, subs and aircraft did a lot of damage, and after some initial success the Japanese didn't do that much damage.
Whats interesting is how much damage was done by the RN to the Axis forces.