Lt. Anton Resch claims on 30May44

[Nokose]

Nikita,
Thanks for clearing that up. Bergstrom's time for this incident must have been wrong to have put Resch as one of the victors also thus eliminating Batz from this combat. Could the 129 GIAP have been involved in their dogfight? The 129 GIAP was suppose to have also lost 5 of 6 airacobras on the 30May44.

[Rob Romero]

Revised Combat Evaluation: 31May44:
III/JG52 jumps 16 GIAP of VVS (under ace Maj. Grigoriy Rechalov) in the Iasi area claims and shoots down 5 of 6 P-39s with Rechelov escaping –suggesting a 100% claim veracity for this action, assuming that the claims of Aircobras by II/SG2 20-25 minutes earlier in the same area are unrelated.

Question: Is Nordmann’s claim related as he flew with I/JG52 and his is 20 minutes after the the intial claims recorded by III/JG52?

31.05.44 Hptm. Günther Bleckmann 6./SG 2 Airacobra £ 78 821: at 150 m. 08.15 Film C. 2032/I Anerk: Nr. 51
31.05.44 Fw. Dieter Voigt Stab II./SG 2 Airacobra £ 78 821: at 100 m. 08.15 Film C. 2032/I Anerk: Nr. 9
31.05.44 Ltn. Werner Fass 6./SG 2 Airacobra £ 78 821: at 500 m. 08.20 Film C. 2032/I Anerk: Nr. 52
31.05.44 Fhj. Gerhard Rüher 6./JG 52 Airacobra £ 78 811: at 2.500 m. 08.40 Film C. 2032/I Anerk: Nr. 222
31.05.44 Uffz. Eberhard von Treuberg 7./JG 52 Airacobra £ 78 811: at 2.000 m. 08.40 Film C. 2032/I Anerk: Nr. 333
31.05.44 Ltn. Heinz Sachsenberg 6./JG 52 Airacobra £ 78 812: at 1.000 m. 08.45 Film C. 2032/I Anerk: Nr. 271
31.05.44 Uffz. Birkenfeld 7./JG 52 Airacobra £ 78 820: at 100 m. 08.55 Film C. 2032/I Anerk: Nr. 334
31.05.44 Fw. Jürgen Nordmann 1./JG 52 Airacobra £ 78 824: at 1.200 m. 09.00 Film C. 2032/I Anerk: Nr. 295

Rob Romero

[Nikita Egorov]

Originally Posted by Nokose

Nikita,
Thanks for clearing that up. Bergstrom's time for this incident must have been wrong to have put Resch as one of the victors also thus eliminating Batz from this combat. Could the 129 GIAP have been involved in their dogfight? The 129 GIAP was suppose to have also lost 5 of 6 airacobras on the 30May44.

Michael,

These are two different cases. One with 129 GIAP happened on May 30. Next day occured massacre of Rechkalovs group.

[Rob Romero]

Nikita,

any details on the 129 GIAP disaster?

Rob Romero