Up to relatively recent times, the commonly accepted number of air victories gained by the ANR fighter pilots was between 239 and 240 planes shot down as well as another 115 unconfirmed between January1944 and April 1945.However, a re-examination of both British and American operational reports led to reconsider those numbers, showing how the air victories actually gained by the Republican fighter pilots probably totalled in truth one quarter of thefigures accepted for decades