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Originally Posted by Jens
G. Rall describes in his "Mein Flugbuch" some statements about Yak-9 and La-5. Same can be said about the works by Schwabedissen and Plocher. I also know statements from GLM and Graf about soviet planes, quite matchning soviet figures. The GLM was at least in 1942 quite well informed about soviet fighter planes (not so about heavier bombers).
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Even with Rall claim list happened one intresting metamorphoses in his "Mein Flugbuch". The III./JG52 and it chief Rall claims often, even in 1944, the soviet plane "lagg". This type did not exist, but we can assume, it was one single engine plane. In the claim list of "Mein Flugbuch", all planes with type "lagg" from the middle of 1943 was substituted with type "LAGG-5". As result, the LAGG-5 was the type, which mostly claimed by Rall. For each, who know something about soviet figther arm structure and numbers, appears such claims as not possible: the primary soviet type was Yak and the most claims should be concern this type and not La(GG)-5.
I assume, as Rall prepared his book, he or his editor, realized, that "lagg" type does not exist, and it was replaced with similar sounded LAGG-5. But I can only guess, what Rall really shot down