From Barbarossa to Odessa (Luftwaffe Strikes Pt 1)

[Dénes Bernád]

Originally Posted by Nokose

Denes, Should we look at the times listed as Eastern European for the Axis operations and the VVS as Moscow time?

Al times were chaged to East European Time (EET), where most of the air battle took place. This is mentioned somewhere in the book.

As for 'who shot down whom?', we deliberately did not engage in such kind of debate and guessing, and leave this matter to the readers' enjoyment. Of course, I am willing to discuss it on this (and other) forums, but not in the book, as it mostly generates various claims, which cannot be 100% proven ever.

P.S. Grozeshti is about 50 km W of Kishinev (Chisinău), so it's perfectly plausible to think that Fw. Erwin Sawallisch could have been the victor over Pokryshkin. However, as noted above, there is no firm proof.

P.P.S. We deliberatly did not quote from Pokryshkin's memoirs, for a good reason...