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Stig, thank you fir your response, maybe Kirche can provide the location of Lake Nevetina. I suspect it is around Staraya Russa - Demyansk as the locations from Prien’s book just doesn’t look right.

Jrnimal,
I have seen to many times that the pilots of JG 54 identified a La-5 as a Curtiss P-40 and the P-40 as a La-5, it was probably the engine size that threw them or they didn’t care. I have the times for that date but the Russian location is partially faded. The Soviet use of “Did not come back from combat mission” , doesn’t mean that they were really lost. I have seen it in the OBD Memorial were they had to add and amendment that he had returned wounded or just got delayed for where they landed.