[Nick Hector]

For Juha et al:

The 25.2.45 victory was claimed as a Yak-9. Historians like us who were trying to match the victory to the loss have surmised that it was a misidentification of Darjan's Bf109. Hence, a Bf109 does not show up in Lipfert's victory list and indeed his memoirs state his desire to have encountered a Romanian-flown Bf109 as he thought it would be interesting to dogfight with one. This is because he had trained Romanian pilots and wanted to "see what they had learned."

Or in other words: if he did ever actually tangle with a Bf109 in reality, certainly at the time of writing his memoirs he was unknowing of the fact.