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Re: JG3 Victories
03Aug41
Oblt. Kurt Sochatzy 7/JG3 (Staffel Kapitaen)
(38) I-16 16:40 over Kiev
Luftkampf 16:40 I-16, rammed area of Keiv, Bf-109 F-2 Wknr. 8217, 100%
Kharzanov's book states the Russian records listed this encounter as 31Jul41. Ml. Lt Chichiko Kaiserovich Bendeliani of 43 IAP turned 180 degrees with his I-16 and came head on at Sochatzy. Both fighters hit head on according to Uffz Hans Schleef (7/JG3). Sochatzy was pulled from the the Dnepr and released in 1949. Bendeliani became a Russian ace who favored head on attacks.
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