Hello!
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Originally Posted by Dénes Bernád
That day, Hungarian fighters escorting Ju 88s targeting a train between Valiyuki and Kupyansk claimed two Aircobras, who were attacking the Junkerses.
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17.VA and 310.IAD PVO hadn't Aircobras at all, so Hungarians fought with other planes.
According to operative report of 17.VA for 16.Jun.43, 1 La-5 was downed in dogfight (pilot has baled out and safe) and 2 Yak-1 FTR. One Yak-1 was damaged in dogfight.
According to 288.IAD war diary, pilots of both missing Yak-1 has returned on 17.Jun.43. Bryzgunov has force-landed due to motor failure (pilot safe and the plane undamaged), Kazakov was damaged in dogfight and has nosed over during forced landing. Pilot had a contusion, fate of plane is unknown for me.
310.IAD hadn't any losses apart a slightly damaged Yak-7b mentioned in my previous post.
Also can’t find in OBD any personnel loss of 17.VA and 310.IAD on 16.Jun.43.
So in air combat 1 loss + 2 damaged planes (one of them maybe written off) against 7-8 German claims (8 if we count Lemke's (9./JG3) 2nd claim in unknown area) and 2 Hungarian claims in the sector in question.
Maybe other Russian participants can add some losses or damages if they were omitted in 17.VA’s operative report.
Best regards,
Andrey