Soviet air victory claims on 17.6.1944 over Perkjärvi (Finnish front)?

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Originally Posted by Kari Lumppio

IIRC Jermakov's claims do not really match with Finnish losses. StLt Vedenejev had the best claim/real loss ratio of 159 IAP as far as FinnAF is concern.

Hmm, I wonder how good that "correct claim" ratio is? Also Valentin Vedeneyev was involved in the shooting down of Finnish "phantom Fiats" on 9.6.1944. From the above posts it seems that Valentin Vedeneyev made no claims on 17.6.1944 (unless "Medvedev" is Vedeneyev).

Some Soviet piloting La 5 shot down Sarjamo (MT-227) and caused accidentally also the death of Nissinen (MT-229) - this is what Finnish sources seem to confirm. Many of Yermakov´s claims are obscure (as well as many claims of many other fighter pilots of WW2) but maybe this one is correct. Anyway it most probably was someone from 159 IAP as no other Soviet unit claims matching by date, location and other details are known.

By clock time the claims of Yermakov, Medvedev (Vedeneyev?) and Ruzin are closest to events recorded by Finns and thus one of them most likely caused the destruction of MT-227 (+ MT 229).