9 December 1943 - YAK 1 loss (Lipfert's 74th victory)

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The loss entry of the two 14 GvAP DD B-25 Mitchells and their crews that failed to return in the morning of August 10, 1944 from the night mission over Samarica, Yugoslavia. (TsAMO) Both planes (42-32474, red '12' and 43-3507, red '4') were lost to Fw. Eckart Ulmer (8./NJG.6) at Nagymányok and Akasztó, Hungary. The 6 B-25s flying the mission were:

B-25D, S/N: 43-3507, red '4' - Pchelov (KIA) at Akasztó, dropped supply-containers: №2644, 2624, 2627, 2655, 3189, 3196, 2674, 2645.
B-25D? S/N: 42-..362, red '5' - Smirnov (42-87362?), dropped supply-containers: №2524, 2522, 2562, 2556, 2521, 2529, 2551, 2604.
B-25D? S/N: 42-..369, red '7' - Konstantinov (42-87369?), dropped supply-containers: №2534, 2547, 2538, 2543, 93, 54, 55, 63, 68.
B-25C, S/N: 42-32474, red '12' - Karakozov (KIA) at Nagymányok, dropped supply-containers: №2527, 2526, 2553, 2540, 2525, 2567, 2575, 2619.
B-25D, S/N: 42-87394, red '14' - Vasin, dropped supply-containers: №1371, 1370, 1381, 1187, 0788, 1369, 1146, 1165.
B-25D, S/N: 42-87588, red '25' - Kuprienko, dropped supply-containers: №1411, 1188, 1145, 1382, 1374, 1375, 1156, 1163.

(Based on the container No.s the soviet HQ. could check and verify each crew if they really dropped their cargo successfully to the partisans after their radio message. They also knew what stuff the partisans received and what supply should be re-sent during the next mission(s).