Russian Air Detachment - Bari - 1944

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Gabor

An interesting fact ,on August 25, 1944 Maj.Nyuhtikov a 861 BAP A-20 plt. was assigned a unique mission in the history of his war time . On the eve of Aug 24,44 he got assignment as flight leader of several A-20 Bostons escorted by 20 Yak-9DD to fly from Balti Moldova over part of the occupied Romanian territory , Bulgaria and over Yugoslavia on purpose to drop supplies to Tito then land at Foggia main . During this mission at some point in time one Yak-9DD was hit by AA either over Bulgaria or Serbia and may have gone down or may have performed an emergency landing somewhere . Do you have any records on such event ? Also was this 659 or 866 IAP which escorted 861 BAP ?

Alex K