JG 77 victories

[Nokose]

On looking through Prien's "JFV" Teil 9/I the only one that matches for 25 Apr 42 for this area of the front and date is for I/JG 77 but there is NO time and location.

Oblt Friedrich Geisshardt Stab I claimed the following an I-16 (62), I-16 (63) and I-16 (64).

Losses for the 298 IAP for the 25 Apr 42 from aerial combat.
I-16 (flight commander) St. Lt. Guriy Aleksandrovich Murav'ev (KIA)
I-16 Ml. Lt. Aleksey Ivanovich Lukantsev
I-16 St. Lt. Vasiliy Mikhayovich Drygin (WIA) I mentioned his experience of this in another post. He would score 17 personal and 8 group victories and receive the HSU.

[Stig Jarlevik]

Nokose

Your version of August 12, 1941 interception of 12 SB from 40 BAP is very interesting. According to Andrey Mikhailov in Black Cross and Red Star Vol 1, 40 BAP lost three SB during a noon interception, again by II./JG 77.

Are your six losses + three forcelandings ONLY from Wintergest's actions or do they cover the losses of the whole day as suggested in the book?

If not which three aircraft were lost during the noon raid on Odessa?

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Stig