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I took a look through Christer Bergstroem's book "Bagration to Berlin" and saw these claims that he wrote down. 18Sep43 812 IAP lost 3 Yak-1 of which Hartmann claimed 2, Friedrich Obleser 1 and Johannes Bunzek 1. Who's to say that Obleser or Bunzek's Yak-1 didn't go down. 29Sep43 Hartmann possibly ended the life of Mayor Vladimir Semenishin in a Airacobra of the 104 GIAP (15 victory & 11 shared ace). He lists that Hartmann on the 20Aug43 was possibly shot down by the rear gunner of Lt. P. Yevdokimov's Il-2 of the 232 ShAP. That was the day he was captured by the Russians and escaped.
I don't have any problem with Hartmann's score. It may not be 352 and only 80 but it hasn't been proved either way by someone who is UNBIAS. Dmitriy Khazanov might be bias. I have several of his books that have some good facts if you "pick" through what he has to say. I have seen only praise by him for one German pilot of JG51. Maybe Bernd Barbas should write a book on Erich Hartmann but with a co-author from Russia like Vitaliy Gorbach. He's fair and could provide the Russian losses and point of view on many of the dogfigths.
I have respect for what Hermann Graf and Hartmann did at the end of the war. They stayed with their men and were captured. They could have flew out with the rest of the pilots and left everyone else to get away on their own. How many of the people out there who have a wife and family would do that?