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Re: III/JG51 claims 12.08.43 and 13.08.43
13 IAP/201 IAD was in action against I/JG51, IV/JG51, II/JG52, I/JG54 in Kharkov-Bogodukhov area.
1 VA opposed stabstaffel/JG51, III/JG51, 15/JG51 and II/JG54 in Yartsevo-Smolensk-Dukhovshina.
Losses were high, but apparantly Germans mixed the opponents' fighters types on some occasions.
12 August:
215 IAD lost 10 La-5s, five in 813 IAP, three in 522 IAP, two in 263 IAP.
309 IAD lost two Yak-7s in 162 IAP and three La-5s of 272 IAP
323 IAD lost 4 Yak-9s in 518 IAP, three Yak-7s in 149 IAP and one Yak-1 in 484 IAP.
13 August:
309 IAD lost one La-5 in 813 IAP
303 IAD lost one Yak-1 in 20 IAP
259 IAD lost five La-5s and one Lagg-3 in 21 IAP and two Yak-7 in 976 IAP.
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