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Re: Air battle over East Prussia in October 1944
Thanks Laurent, interesting remark. It proves that reporting about "long nose" fokker could happen before its real appearing.
To warm up the topic let me try to introduce provisional OOB of 1st Air Army of VVS during its East Prussian invasion in october 1944. Operation had been started 16 october by:
240 IAD: yak-3,9 (111 operational a/craft; 111 a/crew)
303 IAD: La-5, Yak-3, Yak-9U (131; 154) - in few days arrived also 20 La-7
129 IAD: La-5 (103; 113)
6 GBAD: A-20, Pe-2 (92; 105)
276 BAD: Pe-2 (79; 80)
213 NBAD: Po-2 (85; 97)
1 GShAD: Il-2 (175; 154)
311 ShAD: Il-2 (80; 88)
182 ShAD: Il-2 (101; 110)
277 ShAD: Il-2 (97; 90)
10 ORAP: Pe-2, Yak-9, Il-2, Po-2 (40; 26)
117 OKRAP: Il-2, Yak-9 (30; 21)
later arrived:
130 IAD: Yak-9D, Yak-9L (110; 106) - starting from 18.10.
330 IAD: La-5 (42; 50) - starting from 23.10.
May be somebody does know any issues with information about german side in this operation? May be any memories from german pilots?
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