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Hello Theo,
maybe these incisets are connected...
Night 12-13.10.43:
A-20B-1 “Boston” crew (pilot: Podpolkovnik V.A. Borisov, navigator Mayor I.I. Kindyushev and gunner-radio operator Chief Petty Officer Kurochkin) of 26 guard air regiment (2nd guard air division, 2nd guard air corps ADD) took off at 23:40 hrs from it´s base on the airfield of Lipitsy (Serpukhov) and was to patrol Mogilev airfield – where the base of Ju.88 nightbombers was assumed - in the period from 00:30 to 01:00 hrs at a height of 300-400 meters with another A-20B-1 from the same regiment. As German aircraft were returning and landing in intervals of 3-5 minutes, Borisov joined the landing pattern, sight was 5km. He attacked an enemy aircraft from 75m at a height of 50m firing two bursts of his 4 and 2 MGs after which the a/c crashed beyond the limits of the airfield, probably damaged. Then Borisov saw as the second „Boston“ crew attacked another e/a, that caught fire and crashed. Thereafter the rocket signals stopped. Then Borisov attacked the KP with 4 „PC“ rockets and gunned the revetments from a height of 200m in a second approach. Thereafter the electric lights of the landing pattern was switched off, the remaining fires were turned off after 10-12 minutes. No night landings were carried out at Mogilev A/D thereafter.
On the return leg at 1,300m a Bf.110 attacked from a distance from 50-70m from behind and 10m beneath near the front-line. The top gunner opened defensive fire and a reciprogal burst passed above the „Boston“. Then the Bf.110 turned away and presented it´s belly to be hit by the top-gunner. The long burst damaged the Bf.110, which crashed in the Lyubin region. The whole flight took 5 hours.
Mayor I.I. Kindyushev was awarded HSU on 19.08.44 and had flown 215 missions between 26.07.41 and June 1944 in DB-3F/Il-4 and Boston A-20 bombers on North-West, Leningrad and Stalingrad Fronts, over Kursk, Sevastopol, Belorussia, Poland, later bombed Helsinki, Königsberg and Berlin (with 19 GBAP).

Balss gives two losses for 12.10.43:
Ju.88C-6 Wnr.750398 of 3./NJG.100 crashed S of Schkloff (Shklov) after air combat (100%), crew baled out unhurt.
Ju.88C-6 Wnr.750394 of 3./NJG.100 damaged by gun fire (50%) Flugplatz Orscha-Süd, crew unhurt.
Loss recorded on 12.10.43: AE. Orsha: 6./KG3 (LF.6); Ju88A-4; WNr.4691; 100%; Flak Fire; crew save.
Loss recorded on 13.10.43: AE. Orsha: 9./KG1 (LF.6); Ju88A-4; WNr.800922; 25%. Crash on landing.

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