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I say UNFAIR that Fonch or  EvR or dare i even say Fat Hermann Göring is never scrutinized for their WWI records so much as Bishop!
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Actually they are, just not in this thread. The Fall '95 issue of Over the Front goes over Goering's claims in great detail, and they are reasonably credible, not much overclaiming. Fonck has been compared to Guynemer, whose claims were also very accurate, and Rickenbacher has been compared to Luke, with the same result. The front runner of all three services has a lot of OOC's and the second one on the list has a lot of wrecks and comparable German losses.
It may be of some comfort to know that George Buerling's claims have very high accuracy compared to actual losses.