"The Jerrard VC claim has similarities to the Bishop affair although as he was by then a prisoner he did not submit a false claim himself.
Norman MacMillan in Offensive Patrol deals with this incident in some detail. The British claims for aircraft shot down were not substantiated. MacMillan also deals with the story that Jerrard offered to return his VC."
Not exactly--Jerrard was asked if he wanted to return the VC, and said no.
He had, after all, played no part in the citation as a POW. The men who returned cited him after a very confusing fight which Jerrard himself had little memory of. He had fought all the way to the ground, in a cockpit soaked in gasoline--if his fight did not have the results claimed for it, the requisite courage may have been there. I've heard it suggested that the survivors of Jerrard's flight left him and ran home and made up a story of his heroic death to cover their own tracks.