U-2 shot down over Petsamo
 

Hi guys

On the Luftwaffe Nordic Claims website, I note that a Soviet U-2 is credited to a pilot of 1./JG77 as being shot down on 25 June 1941 in the Petsamo area. Was this aircraft based at Petsamo?

I'd not spotted this entry previously.

Any further information, please?

Cheers
Brian

Re: U-2 shot down over Petsamo
 

Hello!

Not likely. Petsamo was part of Finland then (1941).

Kari

Re: U-2 shot down over Petsamo
 

Hi guys

Thanks Kari

Latest information suggests that the U-2 biplane was shot down by a Bf109 near Schonguy airfield, south of Murmansk, and not over Petsamo!

Cheers
Brian

Re: U-2 shot down over Petsamo
 

That makes more sense - Petsamo being a German airfield and Murmansk/Schonguj being well and truly Soviet territory.

Re: U-2 shot down over Petsamo
 

According to http://eismeerjager.livejournal.com/921.html

Mladshiy Leytenant Pavel Ashmarin of 147 IAP went missing this day aboard an U-2 flying from Ura-Guba airfield to Schonguy airfield and was allegedly shot down by enemy fighters.

The above link is part of a series covering Axis and Soviet losses in the northern front from June 1941 to April 1942:
http://eismeerjager.livejournal.com/...B5%D1%80%D0%B8