[Nick Hector]

Hi Stig and Johannes,

It's extremely hard to find much about either Tanzer or Woidich at all, but I hope what I have turned up helps provide a few pieces of the mosaic

Tanzer and Woidich

Kurt Tanzer

2.8.42/0900
IL-2 Sturmovik
10km W of Rzhev (PQ 47581) @ low altitude
3 VA. Their losses this date include 685 ShAP's Ivan Prokolyevich Sidchenko and 451 ShAP's Serzhant Mikhail Andreevich Sorokin

5.8.42/0450
Pe-2
20km ESE of Dugino (PQ 46442) @ 1500m
Believe this was the engagement in which crew of Lt. Nikolay Nikolayevich Sokolov (KIA) of 285 BAD was brought down. Falkensamer claimed too

3.12.42/1150
IL-2 Sturmovik
20km SSW of Velikiye Luki @ 1000m
Ml.Lt. Ivan Nikolaevich Aleko with gunner Ivan Vladimirovich Storozhenko of 800 ShAP both KIA

16.1.43/0814
Pe-2
PQ 07553 @ 1000m
804 BAP, 293 BAD. Other losses were Ml. Lt. Mikhail Efimovich Syromyatnikov KIA and Ml. Lt. Nikolay Dmitievich Korolev MIA (total of 7 KIA and MIA)
(Gustl Mueller and Martin Schamberger are credited with downing the crew of Mayor Vladimir Yakovlevich Gavrilov survived (It appears Mueller attacked it, Schamberger finished it off))

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Franz Woidich
21.11.41/1500
P-40 Tomahawk
7km S of Ain-el-Gazala
2 sqn SAAF. Lt. D A Hinde returned safely (credited to flak or engine damage by allied sources)

22.11.41/1635
P-40 Tomahawk IIB
NW of Bir Hacheim
3 sqn RAAF and 112 sqn. 112 lost Sgt. Henry George Burney, RAAF in AM390/GA-W (returned). 3 lost Sgt. Ronald Henry Simes in AM507/Z also returned whilst F/L Lindsay Eric Shaw Knowles AN410 , F/O William Kloster in AK390 and P/O Lawton "Sammy" Lees AN305/E(?) were all KIA as was F/O F Fischer in AK407. F/O H G Roberts in AN373 POW
(there were about 5 claims in total)

15.3.42/1135
Curtiss P-40
20km SE of Ain-el-Gazala @ 400-500m
260 sqn, Sgt. T Parrot. Damaged (rightly unconfirmed)

2.9.42/0536
Pe-2
5km NE of Kopetowka (PQ 46214) @ 1500m
Likely 2 BAP. Crew of Serzhant Anatoly Pavlovich Terekhov failed to return

28.10.42/1505
Yak-1
6km NW of Achtuba (PQ 69573) @ 2500m
Ivan Fedorovich Stepanov of 287 IAD? KIA near Achtuba this date

4.8.43/1410
La-5 ("LaGG-5")
PQ 61 683 @ 200m
Day's La-5 losses include Petr Kucherenko of 302 IAD KIA

15.8.43/0730
PQ 60158 @ 3000m
Day's La-5 losses include Mladshiy Leytenant S G Balakin of 295 IAD KIA

22.8.43/0955 and 1001
2 x La-5 ("LaGG-5")
Day's La/LaGG losses include Ml.Lt. Vasilii Nikolaevich Fadeev of 297 IAP, 4 IAK KIA

17.12.43/1227
P-39 Airacobra
N of Novogodka @ 800m
Day's P-39 losses in air combat in the south include 129 GIAP, Ml.Lt. Anatoly Andreevich Fomin KIA
(there were many claims for P-39s….)