[Laurent Rizzotti]

Hello,

I am searching details for two Soviet losses on 11 November 1942

1) I would like to identify a Soviet aircraft shot down on the morning of 11 November 1942 over Lake Ladoga. Aboard was an important member of NKVD named Kuprin who was killed on his way to Leningrad. A claim by Ofw Kurt Olsen of 3./JG 54 for a TB-7 shot down at 0630 hrs that day is possibly linked to this loss. But I have an old file compiled from various Internet sources (now outline) that is supposed to be a loss list for TB-7/Pe-8, and I have nothing for this date. Also a check of the Aeroflot loss list gives nothing (only loss that day was in Azerbaijan IIRC).

2) that same day, I am searching an unrelated claim by a pilot of 15.(span)/JG 51: Oblt. Luis Medrano claimed a Pe-2 in PlQu 44 414 at 6.500 m at 0805 hrs. At such altitude it was probably a Pe-2 recon sortie. Has anyone such a missing machine for this date ?

Thanks in advance