Mrek:
In first place, thanks for your oppinion, and also I apologyze that I answer you that late. I was extremely bussy.
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Originally Posted by Mirek Wawrzynski
Hi
If right remeber, his "1-st" victory was own Su-2 shot down on 22.06.41, luckly crew had survived unharmed, this also counts. He did not know, what he did shot at then.
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Yes, I know about that incident. But I focused in his victories against the Axis aircraft, not about "friendly fire" cases.
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There is one big book printed in Russian in 2008, about Soviet aces in GPW (by "Bykow" or so?), there are a list of all his victores, but have not yet mached.
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I asumme that you are talking about Mijail Bykov's book
Asy Velikoy Otechesvennoy Voyny. Samie rezultativnye liotchiki 1941-1945 gg. I have that book. Thanks for the advance anyway
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Some time ago had been printed a nice story about early period of 55. IAP (in 1941) by Russian author too. He wrote about Pokryschkin and Rechkalov competition in this unit too done according Russian archive. Somewhere should be on the net.
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If you remember the name of the book, please tell me.
Anyway, I have my doubts about that "competition". There is of course no doubt that the relationships between Pokryshkin and Rechkalov were tense and frequently bad, but I did not support the theory that Pokryshkin tried to stole kills to Rechkalov.
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The books done by Bergstrom, Black Cross ... vol I (two edition) there are not good sources of information. Checking data from them and other sources (Russian and other) I have found too many fantasy and errors in them. But if you like fantasy of course it is very good books.
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Which errors did you find?
Furthermore, even when Bergstrom tries to show impartiality, I noticed a couple of situations where the Luftwaffe suffered heavy losses in the hands of VVS, but Bergstrom did not mention at all. It seems to me that Bergstrom overemphasize German victories.
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Books done by Denes Bernard and Dymitry Karlenko are much more usefull and credible sources for this period but ending in October 1941.
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Thanks for the advice. I will try to buy it.
Kind regards,
Diego