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alder said:

And Glider remember that no where does it say Luftwaffe aircraft killed. It says Axis aircraft killed.

The Axis consisted of numerous countries indluding Germany, Italy, and Japan.

Who did most of the arial fighting in the Pacific? The US. (Yes the British did there fair share in the Pacific too but the US fought the most there) So the US kills account for avast amount of the Pacific theater.

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but the british figures should also include kills in the MTO, so i'd expect them to be higher than that.......

Again no where in the my post am I saying that the figures are exact or confirmed.

Yes the British do account for the MTO as well as the ETO and the PTO just like the US kill figures.

You have to remember one thing that may shed a little light on the fact, once the US entered the war and broght over the P-38's and the P-51's they were taking the fight deep into Germany. They had further range and were escorting the USAAF bombers. The Germans were throwing everything they had up against them so the P-38's, P-51's, and P-47's were getting lots of chances at large numbers of German fighters. It was not uncommon to have hundreds of escort fighters escorting the B-17's and B-24's. This may account for the large numbers of kills. The USAAF fighters were flying deep into Germany where Spitfires could not until they had bases in France.