[BenFolk]

Hi

for example

In the period from July 5, 1943 until February 18, 1944 mechanic Panchulidze 165 GvSAP evacuated 8 damaged aircraft from the front line from the places of forced landings.

During this period Panchulidze personally took part in the repair of 11 aircraft, 5 of them on forced landings.

On July 5, 1943, after the first combat sortie, his plane was shot down anti aircraft gun the enemy and made an emergency landing. Panchulidze goes to the place of the forced landing and in a day the plane comes into operation again.

Most likely in June 1944 the aircraft Nr 24611, Airacobra, being knocked out in an air battle, made an emergency landing in the mountainous terrain in the Yass direction. Mechanic Kotlyarov 104 GvIAP within 24 hours found it, restored it in 18 working hours and delivered it to his airfield.

Such losses were not recorded in Russian documents. Most of the time the planes came back by truck or pulled by a tractor.

So an aerial victory for the Germans, but not an aerial victory for today's historians.

Regards

BenFolk