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Re: Ju 86 P loss(es) on 15 April 1941 in Ukraine
"Lejt. Schounov of 46 IAP as Flight Commander in a MiG-3"
I still maintain what I once wrote, except that this lt. Schounov pilot was on the I-16 type 5, and not on the MiG-3. The MiG-3 fighters did not enter service with the 46 IAP, i.e. April 1941, a new type, still unreliable, with various technical and design problems.
As I remember correctly, the pilot even fired a short series of one Ju 86 engine, the other engine was turned off by the crew and had to lower the flight trying to reach its territory at low altitude and make an emergency landing there. Here I might be wrong. The crew had previously been intercepted and landed on the Soviet side.
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mirekw
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Mirek Wawrzyński
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