Good evening Gentlemen,
I was endowed with the P-39 volume of OSPREY's
Aircraft of the Aces series:
https://www.amazon.de/P-39-Airacobra...8008670&sr=8-1
I worked through the US forces chapters and found no trace of a P-39 kill over Asia. No Western New Guinea kills, no Phillipines kills and no CBI kills were mentioned.
Furthermore, the number of MTO kills of the Airacobra was indicated as 14-20, not 25 as indicated here:
http://www.warbirdsandairshows.com/a...torieswwii.htm
Hugh Dow scored one kill over Tunisia and one kill over Italy.
The Soviet forces chapter is well-written but nothing extraordinarily new. The top Airacobra pilots were:
1. Grigorii Rechkalov (Речкалов Григорий Андреевич) = 54,17 [53+3]
2. Aleksandr Pokryshkin (Покрышкин Александр Иванович) = 40 [40+0]
3. Dimitrii Glinka (Глинка Дмитрий Борисович) = 39 [39+0]
4. Nikolai Gulayev (Гулаев Николай Дмитриевич) = 38,33 [37+3]
5. Ivan Babak (Бабак Иван Ильич) = 37,5 [35+5]
6. Mikhail Komelkov (Комельков Михаил Сергеевич) = 35,48 [33+7]
7. Aleksei Smirnov (Смирнов Алексей Семёнович) = 34,5 [34+1] + 1 balloon
8. Boris Glinka (Глинка Борис Борисович) = 28 [27+2]
9. Aleksandr Klubov (Клубов Александр Фёдорович) = 28 [28+0]
10.Aleksei Yegorov (Егоров Алексей Александрович) = 25 [25+0]
11. Pavel Kamozin (Камозин Павел Михайлович) = 25 [23+4]
Did the Russian ever score with the P-400 ?
Have a nice evening,
Michael