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Re: Meissler's (7./JG52) story and interrogation report
Pavel Tarazov’s account on the capture of Meissler can be read from Antipov’s and Utkin’s Dragons on Bird Wings p. 36 – 7. Tarazov and one other unknown Yak pilot (not from 812th IAP), surprised a lone Bf 109. Meissler didn’t give up easily but tried several times to escape to west in spite of warning mg bursts, in the end Tarazov fired one burst at Bf109’s tail, after which the German force landed. Tarazov had tried to force Meissler to land to Tarazov’s own a/f but in that he failed. Meissler force-landed in the area of Maiskiy village. And in the photos the blades of the airscrew of 109 are badly bend, so it was after all wheels up landing even if in the photos the plane is already jacked up on its wheels.
Juha
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