Highest scored VVS IAP in WWII - Luftwaffe and Allied Air Forces Discussion Forum

WhiteKnight · #1 8th May 2006, 17:59

No one can help me?

Jens · #2 10th May 2006, 10:36

How many kills had 728.IAP?

BTW including these stats only individual kills or also shared?

kolya1 · #3 11th May 2006, 00:33

A bit late, but here is what I have about this :

812 IAP scored, AFAIK, 505 kills (though I don't know wether these are only aerial victories or all aircraft destroyed...).

Just like 402 IAP and a few other high scoring units, 812 IAP was a Yak unit part of general Savitskii's 3 IAK, and was never made a Guards unit, for unknown reasons but perhaps not unlinked to the "particular" personality of Savitskii.

As far as aces are concerned, the following flew with 812 IAP :

- Sr. Lt. I.V. Fedorov : 36 kills + 1 shared, who scored more than 10 kills on a 37mm-armed Yak-9T and at least one on one of the few 45mm-armed Yak-9Ks.

- Lt-Col. I.F. Popov : 26 kills, killed 11/12/1944 in an accident.

- Capt. D.V. Djabidze : 19 +2 shared ? (approximately, sources are varying)

And there were many others but I couldn't list them without doing more research...

Hope this can help,

Kolya.