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They may never have been officially credited. About the closest I could ever come to determining yea or nay was that the Black Sheep apparently thought they were and Pappy certainly thought they should have been. The book Once They Were Eagles makes this pretty certain since it contains a multitude of interviews with the Black Sheep. They were conscious enough of the kills to be keeping a running account and making sure Pappy went airborne whenever possible to increase his chances. If I remember right, that played into the flight that ended up getting him shot down which was one ordinarily he wouldn't have made.

Our Birmingham Black Sheep alum Harry Johnson apparently thought the AVG kills were still being credited the last time I read an interview with him, which has been a while back.

There was certainly a big stink about it and probably Pappy didn't help his case out too much considering the mutual aggravation factor he had going with Marine honchos. LOL