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Combat Aces We've Never Heard of...

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Many people consider that Pat Pattle was actually the highest-scoring RAF pilot of WWII.   This is because the situation in Greece was very disorganised and many aircraft he destroyed were not claimed as there was no one to process the claims anyway. 

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Interesting internet article entitled "10 Flying Aces From Second-Tier World Powers"; countries like Swaziland, Croatia, Ukraine and more. Men who racked up very creditable kill scores, but didn't make it into the history books,

 

http://listverse.com/2016/01/10/10-flying-aces-from-second-tier-world-powers/

Seversky, Pattle, Cantacuzino, Juutilainen are fairly well known

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