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Originally Posted by kirche
2,5 hours later, Red Army soldier Semen Semenovich Abramov from his four-barreled machine gun shot down an enemy Bf-109 over the airfield of Adrianopol - the pilot jumped out, but resisted on the ground and was killed. This was "an officer who had 2 orders of the" Iron Cross ", by the name of Schmidt" - as written in the award document of the soldier.
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Possibly Oblt Erich Schmidt, the Staffelkapitän of 9./JG 53. His Bf 109F-2 WNr 12633 "Yellow 6" was shot down by AA fire "in the Velikiye Luki area, near Dubno" according to German loss lists. Schmidt was last seen parachuting, and is missing ever since.