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Old 23rd September 2014, 01:11
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Unhappy Re: flugplatz Lemonsky

I have checked the Polish Town’s Evidence for 1931 (207 Mb file ready for download is here: http://www.mapywig.org/m_documents/P...CI_RP_1931.pdf) and…nothing.
As for temporary Soviet AF airfields, I have only partial list and I haven’t found complete one, though the best available in the net is here: http://www.rkka.ru/i22.htm. Special notice shall be paid to Ленинградский ВО (Leningrad Military District), Прибалтийский ОВО (Baltic Detached Military District) and Западный ОВО (Western Detached Military District). I think others are out of interest. I have check them and…nothing.

Needles to say we are discussing period 1939-1941, when Russian were hastily (with full sense of this word) building their aviation infrastructure on just-captured areas. As for distances of VVS RKKA airfields from the German border, some were pretty close: Tarnovo (129 IAP) – 12km, Dolubovo (126 IAP) – 22 km, Syeburchin (41 IAP) – 50 km, Visokye Mazovietskye (124 IAP) – 40km or Borissovshtizna (13 SBP) – 70 km to mention a few. I doubt our beloved “Lemon Sky” was a kolkhoz field as none were established yet on territories captured by Red Army in period 1939-1941.

I think good idea to narrow down our field of research would be finding a II./JG 53’s target list. An information about it’s losses provided by Larry is a good hint too.
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