KG 53 night claims

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Originally Posted by Laurent Rizzotti

For 22/23 May 1942, the following link in Russian describes the loss of a TB-3 of 3 APDD to an "enemy fighter" and gives a crash location:
http://allaces.ru/p/episode.php?id=1189

The crew member list for this unit on the above site has also one man lost on 19th May.

Theo, it says that they were going to deliver anti-tank mines to Glukhovo (I'm assuming the one to the south of Smolensk). They were shot down at Ugra which is to the south of Vyazma which would be in enroute to Glukhovo.