Re: Moelders vs Galland vs Wick
10.10.38
On fighters:
Grupo 21, *, Meanwhile, in the battle between the fighters Werner Mölders, who led the six of Me-109 shot down one I-16. Republican wounded pilot barely managed to sit on an emergency outside the airport (impactos en ala y dos cilindros del motor perforados). Spanish pilot was wounded but he managed to nurse his shot-up fighter back to base
on bombers:
Grupo 12 or Grupo 24, Immediately attacked the led aircraft, knocking 1 bomber (pilot Trubitsyn Ivan Iosifovich, navigator Utkin Ivan Alekseevich both bail out and gunner Zakhar Savelevich Skutov KIA) and severely damaged two others, the Germans turned around and attacked the trailing pair. During the second attack gunners of SB managed to damage the plane of one of the attackers. "Messerschmitt" went out of the fight and made an emergency landing on its territory. Teammate Germans also stopped the fight and return shut downed aircraft. The gunner was killed downed SC Zahar Scoot (last fallen in Spain Soviet volunteer). Two other crew members were saved by parachute. 2 SB more with damage could not reach the airport. One heavily damaged bomber pilot Boris Stepanovich Sharonov with a bomb stuck in the bomb bay, was able to return to their base. When boarding the plane caught fire, it launched on the run, landing gear buckled and fell to bomb the locks. Fortunately, there was no explosion, but the bomber had to be written off all crew wounded include SB-radio gunner Andrei Fedorovich Kozhemyako. All 3 crew were wounded.
sorry about poor traduction
kind regards
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