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Title: .5 Kill
Post by: Slade on October 04, 2020, 12:29:50 PM

Hello,

In WWII did pilots get a .5 credit for kills, i.e. half the credit for a kill if more than one pilot got hits on a plane?


Thank you,  :salute

Slade

Title: Re: .5 Kill
Post by: 100Coogn on October 04, 2020, 12:31:11 PM

Quote from: Slade on October 04, 2020, 12:29:50 PM

Hello,

In WWII did pilots get a .5 credit for kills, i.e. half the credit for a kill if more than one pilot got hits on a plane?


Thank you,  :salute

Slade

They got to live.

Coogan

Title: Re: .5 Kill
Post by: whiteman on October 04, 2020, 02:05:26 PM

Quote from: Slade on October 04, 2020, 12:29:50 PM

Hello,

In WWII did pilots get a .5 credit for kills, i.e. half the credit for a kill if more than one pilot got hits on a plane?


Thank you,  :salute

Slade

Depends on who was doing the records, seen where different units in same branch didn’t use the same counting methods. Some giving partial some just rounding up.

Title: Re: .5 Kill
Post by: Shuffler on October 04, 2020, 10:51:15 PM

Go peel some potatoes while we talk about it.  :rofl

Title: Re: .5 Kill
Post by: Chalenge on October 05, 2020, 12:13:46 PM

Yes.

Title: Re: .5 Kill
Post by: Eagler on October 05, 2020, 12:56:05 PM

I dont think the germans counted half kills

Eagler

Title: Re: .5 Kill
Post by: Chalenge on October 05, 2020, 04:15:42 PM

Right. The Luftwaffe did not allow shared victories. The French give all pilots claiming a kill full victory. British, Finnish, and US forces gave fractional kills.

Title: Re: .5 Kill
Post by: Slade on October 06, 2020, 06:02:58 AM

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The Luftwaffe did not allow shared victories. The French give all pilots claiming a kill full victory. British, Finnish, and US forces gave fractional kills.

Thanks.  :salute