[kirche]

Antonio, good day.
As I told you before, our group (Search party "Nadezhda", Moscow region) worked on the crash site of Bf-109E Werk. No 3771 of Captain Aristides García López-Rangel in area Istra, v. Duhanino-Aduyevo-Sysoyevo (MIA - 27 November 1941). The remains were not found, but we found part of the jumpsuit, ring and buckles of the parachute.
Thank you so much for your help in finding relatives of Captain López-Rangel. At the end of may 2016 on the crash site Bf-109 of Captain López-Rangel came family of the nephew and niece of the pilot (all the men in the family - the pilots). This is a very nice and sincere people - our new friends.
We worked together again on the wreck of a Bf-109E. We gave them the report-an investigation into the crash, including who was hit (more than 30 pages).
That day scored the 2nd battery of air defense battalion of the 1st guards tank brigade of major-General Mikhail Efimovich Katukov (37-mm automatic anti-aircraft gun mod. 1939 (61-K) and anti-aircraft machine gun DShK):
Senior L-t Ivan Afanasenko (air defense battalion commander);
L-t Joseph Shwedyk (battery commander);
Corporal Mikhail Pimkin (commander of the gun 37 mm);
Corporal Nikolai Rybakov and Soldiers Vladimir Igumnov (gunners);
Soldier Berdy-zhan Karabalin (loader);
Sergeant Vasily Ermoshkin (DShK gunner).
They claimed three planes in one battle (2 Bf-109 and 1 bomber):
- Bf-109E-7 15./JG 27 Werk. No 3185 of Major José Muñoz Jiménez-Millas - MIA (according to Russian memoirs of the plane fell near the battery 37-mm cannons, the pilot was parachuted at a low altitude and died)
- Bf-109E-7 15./JG 27 Werk. No 3771 of Captain Aristides García López-Rangel - MIA (found the crash site)
- The third claim down is not confirmed by the materials GKL

Best regards,
Kirill