20 Jun 1943 Black Sea Fleet VVS was involved in an attack on Germans in the area of Eysk (Germans listed it as Jeissk). Details can be found at
www.allaces.ru for this day of the attack.
Soviet losses:
R-10 23 ShAP ChF (the navigator Serzhant Nikolay Alekseevich Zuravlev was KIA in the air battle. I could find no information on the rest of the crew.)
Il-2 47 ShAP ChF (3 AE) Ml. Lt. Kirill Efimovich Gerasimov (KIA) and gunner Serzh. Nikolay Viktorovich Borisenko (KIA).
9./JG 3 Uffz. Heinz Papendick R-10 (2) 03:45 15 km SW of Jeissk
9./JG 3 Hptm Wilhelm Lemke Il-2 (111) 03:48 SE of Jeissk
" Wilhelm Lemke Il-2 (112) 03:50 W of Jeissk