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Originally Posted by Nokose
12July43
Lt Gomolko of the 240 IAP was returning from a mission in his La-5 (#2952) in the Priznannogiy region. Had the misfortune of approaching one of his own Il-2 Shturmovik's head-on. He was blasted from the sky. The list doesn't give his fate.
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Michael,
Actually he was tasked to escort this group of Il-2s. Arriving in the appointment area, Gomolko, as leader of escort group, tried to warn Il-2s formation leader that escort is on the way. His La-5s was misidentified as attacking Fw-190 and he was killed in burning plane.
Crash site is s-e of Priznannoje.
Brian,
Please note the signifficant thing regarding FF accidents on the Eastern front. Starting from the battle Kuban (april-may 1943), when 4 Yak-1s of 291 IAP landed by mistake in Taganrog, instead of Rostov, lots of Soviet combat reports are full with Soviet planes mentioned as used by Germans. Results of critical research for this cases say that the majority of them can be regarded as FF. But split them from the real cases of German flying the captured planes, are very difficult.
And two more fresh cases of FF, recently extracted from documents:
1. 29.01.1944, 12.35-13.35, area of Cap Tarkhan, Yak-1 of 42 GIAP was shot down by rapid attack of Aircobra. Mladshiy Leitenant Flerov was killed. On the other side Mladshiy Leitenant Andrijevskiy, 66 IAP, flying Aircobra, was credited with one Me-109 at the same area and time as Flerov was killed.
2. 1.02.1944, 16.45, area of Kingisepp-Narva, group of P-40, 191 IAP, on the routine patrol was attacked by a pair of Yak-9s. As result one P-40 was shot down and his pilot Mladshiy Leitenant Shijanov bailed out. Further investigation did not reveal the identity and unit of attacking Yak-9s.