Soviet aces (KIA)

[Laurent Rizzotti]

Do you have details on Morduhovich (full name, score, loss details) ?

[Csaba B. Stenge]

Laurent,

check Mikhail's excellent site for the basic details always:

he had 19 confirmed kills, his exact name (both info from the www.avia-hobby.ru):

Мордухович Павел Яковлевич

[MB]

Originally Posted by Csaba Becze

Laurent,

check Mikhail's excellent site for the basic details always:

he had 19 confirmed kills, his exact name (both info from the www.avia-hobby.ru):

Мордухович Павел Яковлевич

The situation with Mordukhovich's score is not completely clear yet (BTW as with many other Soviet aces' scores too)...

19 is the figure from Soviet popular literature, not from documents. Maybe this is mainly 'propaganda fact'. In documents we found only 11 personal confirmed kills, scored by this pilot. This figure is not 100% decisive, but there are serious doubts that some day I or anybody else will found those 8 victories... Another argument is the fact that Mordukhovich wasn't awarded HSU and never was presented to it.

[Csaba B. Stenge]

Originally Posted by MB

The situation with Mordukhovich's score is not completely clear yet (BTW as with many other Soviet aces' scores too)...

19 is the figure from Soviet popular literature, not from documents. Maybe this is mainly 'propaganda fact'. In documents we found only 11 personal confirmed kills, scored by this pilot. This figure is not 100% decisive, but there are serious doubts that some day I or anybody else will found those 8 victories... Another argument is the fact that Mordukhovich wasn't awarded HSU and never was presented to it.

Thanks, Mikhail, for the further explanation. Well, acording to my limited knowledge, the Soviet fighter pilots generally got the Gold Star of HSU after that number of kills (19). It's possible, that he had some confrontations with a commander (or with a politruk officer) and that's why he did not got that medal, or he had really 'just' 11 kills and that's why did not got that award?

BTW on that day, when he was went missing, Hpt. Sturm claimed two and Lt. Ewald claimed one La-5, so if he was lost in a combat sortie, probably was shot down by a II./JG 52's ace