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Old 6th July 2012, 09:46
Mirek Wawrzynski Mirek Wawrzynski is offline
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Re: Two victories of Gen. Zakharov of 43. IAD over Minsk on June 22, 1941

I have just found his memories in English, :-)

'Large twin-engined aircraft were flying over Minsk it low altitude.
As I approached them I had no idea that they were Ju 88s. They just kept on flying, and bombed their selected target buildings. There were
no enemy fighters anywhere around. After the continuous day-long
waves of bombing raids on the city, and having reduced the local airfield
to ashes, the Junkers pilots obviously felt completely safe by the evening.
'I was far above them when I saw one approaching the district HQ
building in the central city area. I made a diving approach behind it and
fired several long bursts of machine gun fire, but the Ju 88 refused to burn - it just banked away and crashed near Minsk's opera house. I then
followed the other enemy bomber over the city and set him on fire. He left the area trailing smoke. I couldn't wait ro see him crash, but I'm sure the Ju88 couldn't survive. Just like his comrade, he was at very low altitude.'
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