[HGabor]

17 VA fighters and ground attack plane(s) lost in dogfight on February 4, 1945:

17 VA, 194 IAD, 848 IAP, La-5FN, S/N: 39215046, '46', lost in the Sárkeresztes-W area at 16:00 local at 2000 m, 6 La-5s in combat with Bf 109s, flak. Pilot, Ml.Lt. Vladimir Zacharovich Voronov was MIA.

17 VA, 194 IAD, 848 IAP, La-5FN, S/N: 39212754, '54', lost in the Sárkeresztes-W area at 16:00 local at 2000 m, 6 La-5s in combat with Bf 109s, flak. Pilot, Ml.Lt. Boris Petrovich Lazarev was MIA.

17 VA, 136 ShAD, 989 ShAP, IL-2m3, S/N: 11532, '27', lost in surprise fighter attack of 2 'Fw 190's from the sun over their own airfield at Kiskunlacháza, Budapest-S. Ml.Lt. Ivan Alexeevich Dzhanaev - Sgt. Angilenko crashlanded at airfield, gunner badly injured. Engine was later re-used in another plane, so only AC frame was written off, engine serial not mentioned.

Probably none of these dogfight losses was lost to Hartmann as 'Yak-9'.

(By the way, famous Spanish IL-2 pilot, Lt. Celestino Martínez Fierros (№19353, KIA) flew in the same, '3-stripes' IL-2 regiment (989 ShAP) and was lost to flak on March 9, 1945 in the Káloz area in his IL-2, S/N: 10586, fuselage No.'19'. He joined the soviet AF after the Spanish civil war, and was killed in Hungary in the spring of 1945 in the 3rd Ukrainian Front, 17 VA, 989 ShAP. See tail markings of their unit.)

Gabor