Creating Aces

[RLWP]

A perennial theme here goes along the lines of "X was allowed victories without proper confirmation" or "Y was encouraged to put in claims to make him a greater Ace" or "Z overclaimed to become the best Ace".

In particular it is implied that certain pilots who had large scores became "famous" Aces. These pilots would then be of particular value for propaganda purposes. e.g. "Here we see a photograph of the famous pilot X who has killed ## enemy pilots"

The underlying assumption is that "famous" pilots were valuable for publicity purposes, for instance taking the public attention away from the War in the trenches.

My question is (at last), is this what happened? Did newspapers of the time carry articles on the famous Leutnant X or the famous Lieutenant Y?

Richard

p.s. I didn't dare use A,B or C or any actual number