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Originally Posted by Nokose
31 Aug 1943 Yelnya
Maj. Mariano Cuadra Medina 15.(Span.)/JG 51 LaGG-3 (7) 13:05 PlQu. 35 Ost/35374 at 4000 m.
Lt. Jose Mateos Recio 15./JG 51 LaGG-3 (3) 12:57 SE Yelnya at 4000 m.
1 OIAP "Normandie" has 9 Yak-1 covering Soviet forces at Yelnya on observing the approach of 100 He 111 and under escort of 20 Fw 190 which they attacked west of Yelnya. In the ensuing dogfight at 14:10 (Moscow) the Yak-9 (side # 0435) [Doesn't appear all were Yak-1] flown by Capt. Paul de Forges (MIA) is shot down west of Yelnya and also the Yak-1 of Aspirant Jean De Sibour (MIA). Capt. de Forges aircraft was recovered after the war but he is still MIA. His was possibly shot down by Medina as the location is west of Yelnya.
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the yak found at Byvalka is wrongly attributed to Paul de Forges was exhumed this summer.
What was said for 5 years, has been verified, it is not the plane of Paul de Forges (Yak-9 , side # 0435).
According to the russian data Jean de Sibour was flying that day with yak 9 (side #0439)
But a Yak-1b (serial number: 04142) of a Soviet unit that remains to be discovered.