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Originally Posted by knusel
Hello Kirill,
yeah.
To resume the original topic:
As far as I understand that website with my very limited Russian skills
http://airaces.narod.ru/all14/shamanov.htm
the connection of Ivan Shamanov to the Douglas A-20 is explained like this: - the Ilyushin and the Douglas were available at his unit
- Shamanov scored 8 kills
- it's not known if these kills were scored by him personally or by his crew
- in the former case he might have been flying a Douglas because the Ilyushin has no guns for the pilot
Have I understood it correctly ?
Michael |
Hi Michael,
You understood correctly. About Shamanov and A-20G on that resource is only a guess. The authors do not take into account that Shamanov commanded the third squadron until the end of 1944, and the squadron flew to Il-4t until the end of the war.
http://www.airaces.ru/stati/1-jj-gva...-mtap-kbf.html
I think that such an experienced crew as Shamanov-Lorin in the last months of the war did not retrain to the A-20G - especially the unmodified version with a nasal machine-gun installation. Making of such a navigator as Lorin an ordinary navigator for a top-mast bomber is stupid.
Kirill