Talk:George McCubbin

Corporal James Henry Waller
I'm curious: why does Lieutenant McCubbin gets the credit as the one who "shot down the German ace" rather than Corporal James Henry Waller, who actually made the shot that killed Max Immelmann but has no article of his own? Is it military convention that the pilot gets the credit? Or is there simply not sufficient additional information on Cpl. Waller? 97.102.30.205 (talk) 18:30, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
 * A bit of both, I think. It seems custom at the time that the pilot got the majority of the credit for the kill (which may be reasonable seeing that he has to manoeuvre into a firing position) while the gunner/observer is an afterthought.  As such Waller doesn't feature in much of the contemporary reporting so I didn't find enough to establish his notability.  Note that although the two men received different gallantry awards for the action they are broadly equivalent (until 1993 there were separate gallantry awards for officers and other ranks in the British forces) - Dumelow (talk) 19:46, 9 September 2021 (UTC)