[Sanchez]

Hello Leo!

According to my sources (Mardanoff's article), serzhant Semyonov and serzhant Yepanov were shot down by Sponeck and Schumacher (they claimed 2 Hurricanes). Rudolf Mueller shot down Hurricane flown by serzhant Kolentsov and claimed 2 victories.

Additionally on this day the German pilots shot down 3 Hurricanes, two of them were flown by starshiy leitenant But and serzhant Chibisov (both killed). After that combat Mueller claimed 2 Hurricanes and 1 SB (SB of 137 SBAP), Weissenberger and Maul claimed 2 Hurricanes (5 claims in total for 4 actual victories).

Another Hurricane was lost on this bloody day when mladshiy leitenant Negulyayev (of 769 IAP PVO, KIA 23.4.1942) rammed enemy Bf109. This was, in fact, Bf109 flown by Florian Salwender (KIA 23.4.1942). Salwender was credited with 1 victory (Hurricane) postmortem.