Allied Planes Shot down by Oskar Bösch

[Bart V.]

Dear friends,
I am going to write a (small) article on Oskar Bösch for my Magazine ("Argunners") and I am looking for more information on the planes that were shot down by Oskar Bösch. Does anyone have more information to following planes?

DATE - TIME - PLANE - PLACE

On 29.4.1944 around 11:07 a B-17 HSS near NE Gifhorn
On 29.4.1944 around 11:10 a B-17 near 5km NW Helmstedt
On 8.5.1944 around 10:12 a B-24 near Peine-Wolfsburg
On 8.5.1944 a B-17 HSS
On 18.7.1944 around 10:50 a B-17 near SE Kempten
On 3.8.1944 around 11:43 a B-24 near Lechtaler Alpen
On 16.8.1944 around 10:02 a B-17 near Münden
On 2.11.1944 around 12:47 a B-17 near NW Halle
On 25.12.1944 a P-51
On 1.1.1945 a Spitfire
On 19.2.1945 a P-39
On 3.3.1945 around 17:00 a P-39

Thanks in advance!

[Nick Hector]

Victories on 29.4.44: Said to be from 447th BG. I haven't looked any further into it than that, sorry.

Victory on 18.7.44: Same deal as above, but 483rd BG in this instance.

Victory on 3.8.44: Ditto, 463rd BG. There were 11 losses.

Victory on 16.8.44: Definitely credited to IV/JG 3 was 42-31673 "Lassie come home" of 322nd BS, 91st BG (flying with 324th BS when lost). Crew of 2/Lt. Leonard F Figie, 4 KIA and 5 POW. Came down at Deiderode. Can't say for certain that it was specifically Boesch's claim at the moment, sorry.

Mustang on Christmas Day: Definitely attributed to JG 3 was P-51D-10-NA 44-14384 of 343rd FS, 55th FG. Pilot baled out POW. I need to find the pilot's name and like the victory above, I can't say for sure that it was Boesch's claim but it certainly gives you something to go on...

La-5 on 19.3.45: All I know is 116 IAP lost Lt. Andrei Nazarovich Sidorovskii and Ml.Lt. Viktor Vasilievich Ozhiganov both KIA this date

Yak-9 on 18.4.45: All I know (from not the most reliable sources, to be honest...) is the day's losses include Starshii Leitenant Petr Iosifovich Guchyok of 100 GIAP and Kapitan Ivan Ivanovich Landik HSU, OL, 2 x ORB and OPW 1st class of 482 IAP (by Fw190s near Cottbus) (in an La-5?). Both KIA

...Not a lot to go on but you have to understand that on many of the dates concerned, pilots of IV/JG 3 claimed phenomenal numbers of kills over very vague locations. Case in point: 8.5.44, at least half a dozen pilots claimed bombers in the location "Peine-Wolfsburg area (Planquadrat GA-GB)", leaving it impossible to say who got whom...

Nick

[Bart V.]

Nick, great! Thanks for your information already, I appreciate it a lot!

[Nick Hector]

Bart,

Anytime. It's what the forum's for. Greetings from South Australia.

Nick

[Bart V.]

Dear Nick, seems like the Mustang was downed on 27th December and not 25th. Also some dates may be inaccurate.

Meanwhile, here is my article already - which will be updated through out the time - :

http://www.argunners.com/luftwaffe-a...-18-victories/

Also it may be he had in total 19 victories.

[Frank Olynyk]

On page 179 of Norman Franks' The Battle of the Airfields (William Kimber, 1982), is a reference to the shooting down of Spitfire MJ877 of Fl/Lt J P Doak. When I met Oscar once (probably at an American Fighter Aces Association convention) he told me that he was the one who shot that Spitfire down. And I made a note in my copy of the book. So that is his claim for Jan 1, 1945. He did not tell me the basis of his information

Enjoy!

Frank.