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Originally Posted by Juha
Hello Stukapilot
thanks a lot for the links, especially the first one was very helpful!
Thanks from Helsinki!
Juha
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First one is deceiving. Though having May 22 in its headline, telling about the raid of June 2.
On May 22 approximately 150 fighters of 9 IAK, 1 GIAD and 283 IAD managed to take off before the bombing started. At least one of the formation was approached before the beginning of attack and this caused some confusion which ended up in low results of bombing. Lt. Erwin Steimle, Uffz. Richard Hagermann, Lt. Karl Behne, told their interrogators that they were shot down by fighters before they reached the target.
In general 58 Ju-87s were claimed by Soviet fighters engaged.