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Re: Flugplatz Krissicha
Oquaig -
Korowje Selo (RUSS) (e. Korovye Selo; a.k.a. Rozhkopol’ye, Raskopolye) (57 33 N – 28 17 E)
General: landing ground in NW Russia 28 km S of Pskov. Measured 1000 x 1000 meters.
Remarks:
16 Jul 41: bombed – 2 x Bf 109 F-2s from II./JG 53 destroyed on the ground.
This landing ground was about 184 km WSW of Staraya Russa. I don’t know the range of the Bf 109F so I can’t determine if distance was a factor here. The main occupant of Korowje Selo during the second half of July 1941 was KG 76, the first elements of which arrived on 19 July.
This is just speculation, but it is increasingly likely that II./53 was using Korowje Selo as an Ausweichsflugplatz that missions were launched from while the Gruppe's rear echelons remained back at Krussicha until they could effect a full transfer. This is a tiny detail that Prien may have missed. There is/was a road from Korowje Selo to Porkhov.
L.
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