[Ota Jirovec]

Hello Jens,

I believe the following link leading to Pawel Burchard´s excellent site devoted to aerial operations during the Kursk battle will be useful to you:

http://www.lesbutler.ip3.co.uk/tony/pawel/index.html

You can find out that the losses of JG 3 on 5 July 1943 were definitely higher than just 3 Bf 109s.

Hope this helps a little,

Ota