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Re: Poltava defence in June, 1944
IIRC the VVS did very well have night fighter units at Poltava, but the sov. nightfighters were not worth the name: Equipped only with single-engine A/C (Yak and P-40 i.e.) and unable to use "WildeSau"-tactics or similar (using moonlight i.e.).
In the KG4-unit-history @ Motorbuchverlag, VVS-nightfighters in 1944 are described as more or less "no threat at all". On the other hand, the daylight fighters were already in 1943 so good that these ops were cancelled.
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