Maikop commandos raid 24.Oct.42

[Andrey Kuznetsov]

According to Korück 550 preliminary report, some buildings are damaged, "details unknown yet", 2 a/c destroyed. Can't find the final report. Maybe in the AOK17 papers.

According to Soviet estimation based on the morning photorecce, 13 a/c were destroyed and 10 damaged, and a fuel storage was destroyed too. Overclaim.
According to 27.Recce Esc. (27.ORAE VVS ChF), snapshot was too unsharp for the analysis.

This is a scheme of the airfield but the picture is strange a bit. The left half seems authentic but the right half is the modern reconstruction certainly.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...jpg?uselang=ru

Best regards,
Andrey

[Larry deZeng]

Yes, Andrey, that schematic of the airfield is suspect regarding its date - all of the aircraft have swept-back wings!

L.

[Andrey Kuznetsov]

Originally Posted by Larry deZeng

Yes, Andrey, that schematic of the airfield is suspect regarding its date - all of the aircraft have swept-back wings!

L.

Yes, it is the first thing that strike the eye
On the place of this strange scheme should be an aerial photo undoubtedly.
But the left side (text) looks like a real document from 1942.

I think it was a xerox copy of the real document but photo on the right side of copy was almost unreadable and replased by "reconstruction".