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Re: Eastern front Bf 110 loss
Hi,
he was flying P-40B with a fuselage number 58 and there is a well-known photograph of him and his aircraft after the fight. Obvoiusly two tarans did not seem enough for him because on May 14, 1942 he was involved in another one and survived once again. This time he was flying P-40 E No.812 and he collided in the course of a head-on attack with a Bf 109. Miraculously, he was thrown out of his machine by the explosion.
The Curtiss fighter proved to be fateful to Khlobystov because he finally met his destiny in P-40 E No.1134 when he was shot down together with his wingman Lt.Kalegaev by a rear gunner of a German reconnaissance aircraft on December 13, 1943.
Jan
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