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Re: 359 FG dogfight with Russian fighters?
Nokose, I don't think "The Blond Knight of Germany" is a well search book. Though I do not know the details about the clash you mentioned, but when the war was nearly end in Europe and the Front of Soviet and western Allies drawed closer and closer, clashed between VVS and Wester Allies airforce happened many times, the reasons was wrongly indentification, normally soviet and western allied pilots were not familiar with each other's aircrafts and the mark on aircrafts, according to the rule of thumb that time, any aircrafts you found in the air belonged to enemy until proved otherwise, quitely a few aircrafts from both sides were shot down and sadly result with loss of lives, Besides the clashed you mentioned, P-38s of USAAF 82 FG also clased with Yak-1 of VVS 866 IAP on Nov 7 1944
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