In hindsight, who was the top day scorer?

[Nick Hector]

I don't have much on Otto Kittel, but here goes.....

24.6.41/24.6.41/0519 and 0542
2 x SB-2s
31 SBAP. 6 losses and 2 forcelanded. The crew of Nikolay Ermolayert Samokhin were among those that forcelanded after damage from fighters

6.7.41/1536
SB-3
41 SAD (includes 10 SBAP, 201 SBAP and 202 SBAP)

8.9.41/1625
R-5
202 OAES? They lost Lt. Sergey Fedorovich Turasov KIA this date

12.9.41/0600
I-153 (Fricke and Broennle also claimed)
153 IAP. Legitimate victories: there were indeed 3 losses

21.9.41/1658
MiG ("I-18")
5 IAP lost Kapt. N M Nikitin baled out and returned the next day

13.12.41/1245
DB-3
Was this the crew from 1 APDR, Viktor Grigorievich Sekach and crew all KIA?

14.5.42/1517 and 1518
2 x SB-2s
Were these from 44 BAP? Three losses to fighters this date, crews of: Lt. Nikolay Timofeyevich Donskykh forcelanded in friendly territory, Kapitan Gegham Yenokhovich Petrosyan and Lt. Mikhail Fyodorovich Merkushev failed to return

23.8.42/0920
IL-2 Sturmovik
Was this 565 ShAP, Starshina Georgii Aleksandrovich Khevsuriani?

7.9.42/1146 and 1150
2 x IL-2 Sturmoviks
2 AE, 15 GShAP. Losses were AE CO Fedor Andreevich Smyshlyaev, St.Lt. Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Kovalchuk, St.Lt. Nikolay Nikolayevich Kurov, Serzhant Ivan Pavlovych Volzhentsev POW (died in captivity 30.7.44) St. Serzhant Gennady Yakovlevich Shalnov, St.Serzhant Mikhail Fyodorovich Dunaev and Serzhant Nikolay Yakovlevich Krivushkin

22.10.42/0908
IL-2 Sturmovik (von Matuschka and Fischer also claimed)
Legitimate victory: 3 IL-2s lost this day. Two shot down outright and the third forcelanded on fire just inside Soviet lines

12.1.43/1034, 1056 and 1425
IL-2 Sturmoviks
57 ShAP, 8 BAD-KBF listed Lt. Aleksandr Semenovich Potapov HSU KIA this date

12.1.43/1420
I-153 “Tchaika”
71 IAP-KBF. Leytenant Ivan Josefich Makeyev KIA

11.2.43/0942
IL-2 Sturmovik
57 ShAP. 4 losses (there were 5 claims)

15.2.43/0828
IL-2 Sturmovik
448 ShAP. At least one loss: Nikolay Gavrilovich Perelaj returned but gunner G V Yegerev KIA
(there were about a half-dozen claims)

22.6.43/0219 and 0221
2 x IL-2 Sturmoviks
One source suggests these were from 9 ShAD? Were they actually from 943 ShAP, 277 ShAD? They lost Kapitan Sergey Pavlovich Simanov and Ilya Mironovich Kishinevskii both MIA-KIA plus Georgy Gavrilovich Martynov and Vasiliy Andreevich Chirov both POW, survived the war. One source says 939 ShAP, 4 losses