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1st November 2012, 13:00

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Re: Lightning night-fighters in Russia?

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........German pilots now met Lockheed Lightning nightfighers of 760. Fighter Regiment near Leningrad.

But your original question is still unanswered. The VVS did not have Lockheed Lightning nightfighters, nor did the 760 IAP ever have anything but P-40s and Hurricanes until 1944 when it upgraded to La-5s, nor was it ever used in the nightfighter role.

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