Ju 86 P loss(es) on 15 April 1941 in Ukraine

[Chris Going]

You’re very welcome Juha.

I must add a correction. I cited the 17th April sortie plot as SU 1441, but its SU 1339. Sortie SU 1441 is dated 5th June 1941. Either way, by April 18th the sortie number was SU 1344, and by May 28th had climbed to SU 1393 -mostly, I think, sorties into the Western Special Military District and the Kiev district.
Incidentally, those working on sortie tallies (like er, me) need to have a care. I’m coming across garbled entries on the DoD SIS Degree Square overlays, with some films clearly taken on the same flight, apparently getting sequential ‘F’ Numbers. This is messing up my estimations of actual sortie rates. This is something I’d have asked Roy Stanley about if I’d known before…
Keep well everyone -if you can
ChrisG