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Old 20th June 2018, 19:26
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Re: 9 December 1943 - YAK 1 loss (Lipfert's 74th victory)

Adriano,

The list of container (cargo) numbers, loaded on each aircraft, flying a supply-drop mission was part of every mission-plan. Thus the soviet HQ could trace every container, based on the radio message of the partisans who collected them. If a plane was shot down early, or dropped the cargo somewhere else due to any reason, the HQ knew what supply should be re-sent during the next mission. Our research goal was to get information on the battles and plane losses in Hungary, including the soviet cargo planes to identify the crews, wrecks, etc.

From THIS perspective the soviet military policies of the unsuccessful missions, or mission sabotage by the crews (eg. dropping cargo too early to the Germans) and their consequences was completely irrelevant, so we did not research that. But because the mission plans contained the dropped container numbers, we know their assignment by every plane.
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Gabor
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