[oquaig]

Well, I find it interesting that after four days of operations 4 luftflotte flew only 1600 sorties, meaning their sortie rate was not so high, yet western authors keep saying fighters and ground attack flew up to 9 sorties a day and bombers up to six a day, but in fact only a few units did this.
The other thing I find interesting is that this is the only account I have seen so far of any claims for training aircraft. None of the published Soviet documents that I have seen before recently have never mentioned them. Certainly every regiment in the five western military districts (119) had some, plus those no one counts in the 29 regiments that were forming up but not on active duty...but I am going off topic here.

I have read some of Solonin's work. I will look up this new title. Thanks for the suggestion.

Best regards
Oquaig