Re: The confirmation of air victories of top Allied aces by LW sources?
I noticed that Soviet pilots around Leningrad in the summer of 1943 were seeing Fw 190s in just about all of their dogfights. The only Fw 190 staffel in the area was 4.(Jabo)/JG 54 and the other unit was the Bf 109 equipped IV/JG 54. Look at the following losses and claims for 03 Sep 1943 which was some time after 16:57 (B).
Oblt. Alfred Teumer 10./JG 54 Bf 109 G-6 10% damage and WIA (NW of Gatschina) landed.
Uffz. Gottfried Schuster 10./JG 54 Bf 109 G-6 100% damage and KIA At "Pokrowskaja" (Pokrovskoe, 35 km NW of Tosno)
Uffz. Karl-Heinz Leiter 10./JG 54 Bf 109 G-6 100% damage and KIA 1 km NE of Korpikovo
VVS claims:
Kapt. Petr Yakovlevich Likholetov (La-5 159 IAP) Fw 190 (16) Pokrovskoe
Kapt. Viktor Grigor'evich Obiralov (Yak-7 14 GIAP) Fw 190 (16) Slutsk
Kapt Ivan Grigor'evich Pashchenko (La-5 159 IAP) Fw 190 (2) Shushary
I can only see one that matches the Germans and that is Schuster and Likholetov at Pokrovskoe. These are all ace pilots and I have no other pilots that might have scored from 14 GIAP and 159 IAP for that day and time. Thus it is hard to determine who engaged Teumer but it seems their four Bf 109 found superior numbers of Soviet fighters in that battle.
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