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Re: Nevyedritza airfield
Hi Michel,
your Polish resource is very similar to the text in the brochure "War in the Air" No. 34, editor S.V. Ivanov, 2001 - "Yak-1/3/7/9 in the Second World War Part 3" (I think that this brochure is a translation from an English-language publication - mistakes of a double translation are possible):
"...The air skirmish of eight Yak-9Ts from the 148th IAP with "Focke-Wulfs", probably belonging to JG54, ended with a score of 8:3. On February 15, 1944, Yak-9T escorted the Il-2 attack aircraft, which attacked the airfield of Nevedrits. The pilots Shcherba and Ordin shot down four fighters, one of them recorded on their accounts: Lutsenko, Savchenko, Parada and Dronov. In their aircrafts crashed I. Karpenko, N. Pashkov and Dronov. ..."
Also pilots:
Efim D. Ordin
Valentin N. Lysenko
Only this air battle took place on April 28, 1944, and this flight and pilots are very thoroughly in the memoirs:
G.A. Chechelnitsky "Pilots in the War", 1974; Chapter 6 "On the far approaches to the Baltic" (at the end of the chapter).
724 ShAP also suffered losses.
Best regards, Kirill
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