Quote:
Originally Posted by researcher111
2) According vets of BSF Flt School Yeisk only his A-20 was named "Za Stalina " .
|
interview with former Deputy squadron 5 GV.MTAP Minakov Vasily Ivanovich:
https://iremember.ru/memoirs/letchik...-prodolzhenie/
Memories of veterans are always subjective and may not be accurate, but if you believe this interview, then General Tokarev could not have "his" personal A-20 with a personal inscription. According to the veteran's memoirs, he usually flew on the Il-4, and the departure on 30.01.1944 on the А-20 plane was spontaneous. This is indirectly confirmed by the fact that major Markin and radio operator Gavrilov were not the regular crew of the division commander. According to their positions and according to Minakov's memoirs, they were a flight commander-level crew. Markin was only an adjutant 1st squadron of 36 MTAP - not even a Navigator of the squadron. And the full-time Navigator of General Tokarev was the Navigator of the division Khokhlov Pyotr Ilyich. But usually, since the fall of 1941, General Tokarev flew with the Navigator of the 5th Gw. MTAP, gw. major Tolmachev Alexander Fyodorovich.
If the commander of the 1st squadron of the 36th MTAP Captain Obukhov Petr Nikolaevich was originally on the sortie with General Tokarev, then there is a possibility that the general flew on the plane of one of the flight commanders of this squadron. Unfortunately, I have no information on the aircraft of which modification it was and what its number.
Best regards,
Kirill