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Hello Kirche, unfortunately, most of all the German claims for 1941 left out their location. So the times are the only things putting them in these areas. I checked all the other claims for the times of 23 Oct 1941 and this is the only one falling in the Soviet mission time period. So “Possibly” is the only thing that can be used in guessing any claim but this one does seem very close. I went through many reports around the advance to Leningrad and found a lot of Soviet aircraft reported shot down by Bf 109 but no matching German claims. Actually, I saw more Soviet aircraft reported shot down by Bf 110 then in surviving German records for those type units. I would be glad to hear more about the recovered 177 IAP MiG-3. Uffz. Günther Schack 7./JG 51 was shot down on the 23 Oct 1941 and would be curious as to who got him but I don’t think it was Zabolotny.