Soviet VVS attack over Austria in early March 1945?

[HGabor]

Low level attack at midnight sounds suicidal to me... On March 1, 1945 17 VA eg. had 8 long-range Yak-9DD fighters, most of them (if not all) in 288 IAD, 611 IAP. Plus in the spring of 1945, 611 IAP was stationing on the Taszár airbase in Hungary at Lake Balaton-S. From there, lower Austria was in their range for recce. flights of 1-4 planes. By April 1, 1945 their number went down from 8 to 5. On both March 14 and 23, 1945 the biggest air-battles took place still in the Seregélyes and Lake Balaton area. On March 14, 1945 eg. only the 17 VA lost 17 IL-2, 4 La-5, 2 Yak-1, 1 Yak-9 and 8 A-2o Bostons when trying to stop Hitler's last 'Panzer' counter-offensive in WWII at Lake Balaton-SE. Chances are that smaller soviet recce. flights tried to check and challenge the German supply-flow behind the front lines.

Gabor