"Nick" wrote in message
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Actually, the Royal Air Force officially recognised its highest scoring
fighter
pilot in the Battle of Britain as James ('Ginger') Lacey (1917-1989), a
NCO
who was flying the Hawker Hurricane (then the most common RAF fighter
type),
with 18 confirmed victories. At the war's end, Lacey was credited with a
total
of 28 confirmed victories in air combat.

That`s what I heard but wasn`t quite sure.


During the shooting of the 1969 film, "The Battle of Britain", Adolf
Galland,
an expert consultant who had been a top German fighter ace during the
battle,
became engaged in a passionate argument when he contended that the
Luftwaffe
did *not* lose the Battle of Britain. Evidently, he believed that the
Luftwaffe should have won the battle eventually if it had continued
fighting
it with improved tactics.

Adolf Galland (1912-1996) became the Luftwaffe's General der Jagdflieger.
At the war's end, Galland (who had been demoted to take command of JV 44,
an elite unit of pilots flying the Me-262 jet fighter) was credited with a
total of 104 confirmed victories in air combat.

For further reading:

"The Battle of Britain: the Making of a Film" by Leonard Mosley
"Die Ersten und die Letzten" ("The First and the Last") by Adolf Galland
"Adolf Galland: the Authorised Biography" by David Baker

Interesting but I`m afraid we have gone a little Off Topic ;-)

Regards,
Jerzy