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Old 26th January 2015, 03:00
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Re: III/JG 3 Victories

This one is a little complicated and I don't think it is really a JG 3 victory but you decide but the person who found the fighter thinks it is the following
20 Apr 1943
4./JG 3 Lt Franz Ruhl La-5 (4) 16:10 PlQu. 34 Ost/75451, 5 km SW of Novorossiysk (Prien's 12/I)
(Tony Woods list has the height as 1200 m.)
La-5 (# 37210375) 437 IAP Ml. Lt. Sergey Yul'yanovich Yasanis (WIA) bails out.
The planes wreckage is found near the village of Vinogradnoye which above Gelendzhinka and south of Kabardinka.

Another claim made has in Tony Woods list 6./JG 3 Uffz Franz Cech Boston 16:02 75461 at 4000 m. but in Prien's JFV 12/I it has Cech La-5 (12) 16:03 34 Ost/75453, S of Novorossiysk (No height)

Both TW and Prien have Fw. Emil Zibler 9/JG 3 LaGG-5 (32) 16:55 no location.

Finally Prien has Stab II/JG 52 Lt. Heinrich Sturm La-5 (30) 16:19 PlQu. 34 Ost/75462, over Kabardinka (TW has 16:17 at 3000 m.)

Yasanis stated the battle happen at 1200 m and the best guess is that it is Ruhl because of the height. I kind of find it hard for me to believe that the damaged La-5 made it that far or glided on it's own across Tsemesskaya Bay.

I believe it was Sturm despite the given height of 3000 m.
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