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Since Bishop's CHARACTER comes into question by refuting his claims, do examine his character. Not every mission was a lone wolf mission(though he did fly a lot of them, so did his hero Ball). People he DID fly with said he was aggressive(his first kill saved his flight commander on his FIRST sortie or does that one not count??). Can we safely assume he stayed aggressive alone? Aggressive pilots who are good shots score "victories", usually.
Yes this is speculation but so is calling him a liar. Not all are directly calling him a liar here, but the allusions are there. Yes he got many OOC victories but we've been over it before that's the system the RFC used as they had to go find the enemy over his own airspace, and wanted to keep the hero's who, if the system demanded visual destruction, would die following their victims low over their own airspace and get shot down by someone else. The alpha male wants his kill scored however dangerous it sometimes is.
So this guy survives countless sorties and many of them during "bloody april", and somehow he gets the rap of a total fraud. Well i can understand some high browing GASoPhiles pointing at the mighty german records and say this or that may not have happened, but a liar? I personally think not. Yes i'm Canadian, yes i'm biased, so is everyone on this board.
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