Bell P-39 top ten ace list
Good morning Gentlemen,
whereas only one Western Allied pilot, William Fiedler, reached ace status in the P-39, the Soviet air force used this unusual plane with great success. The following list compiles the most successful P-39 aces with their P-39 scores.
Cheers, Michael |
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Hello Michael
Interesting topic. I also would like to know the definite P-39 scores. I only have some second hand info with unknown reliability. Grigorii Rechkalov – 52+4 Dimitrii Glinka - 44 Aleksandr Pokryshkin – c. 40 +? Ivan Babak - 34+5 Mikhail Komelkov – 33+7 Nikolai Gulayev - 32 Alexei Smirnov - 31+1 Aleksandr Klubov – 27+3 Boris Glinka – 27+2 Fedor Arkhipenko – 26+4 Pavel Kamozin – at least 23+6 Andrey Trud – c. 25+1? Again, my list is unreliable. Juha |
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Hello Juha,
thanks for your interest.
http://soviet-aces-1936-53.ru/abc/g/gulaev.htm
Michael |
Re: Bell P-39 top ten ace list
Hello Michael
thanks alot for the links and the extra info! Juha |
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Hello Juha,
you're welcome. Another interesting candidate for the top ten is Vladimir Bobrov. Tomas Polak gives him 13 kills in the Spanish Civil War and 30 kills in the Great Patriotic War. According to George Mellinger these were only his individual kills and there were 4 additional shared kills in Spain and 20 in WW2. Therefore, that list might to be incomplete http://soviet-aces-1936-53.ru/abc/b/bobrov.htm with a minimum P-39 total of 17,83 and a maximum P-39 total of 37,33. Who knows more about this issue ? Michael |
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Hi,
I think that the page of Mikhail Bykov will be interesting to you: http://owl-99.livejournal.com http://owl-99.livejournal.com/83703.html Best regards, Kirill |
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Cool. Top ten ace lists ranked by individual kills.
Is owl_99 Bykov himself ? Michael |
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Good morning,
how many of Ivan Bochkov's 6+10shared Airacobra kills were scored in a P-400 ? Cheers, Michael |
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The P-400's of the USAAF claimed 45 kills, all in the Pacific.
Who was the top-scorer of that subtype ? Michael |
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