Ask for advice: the German bombing of Poltava Perspective

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I searched "Poltava" and there was numerous previous threads on this subject. One member listed the Russian fighter unit as the 802 IAP PVO equiped with Yak-9's at the airfield. Also the Russians might have lost up to 15 aircraft in the raid. The Russians didn't go after the German plane that followed and refused to allow the U.S. fighter pilots to take off after it. The book "Red Phoenix" has a VVS General stating that the VVS raided airfields of units that would have made raids against the bases used by the USAAF but if this happen it doen't look like it had much of a result. I believe that the VVS was more focused on the next day's main event for them.