9./JG 53 31 August 1941

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Hello, Michael
lost were all 6 Il-2, which soared on this mission. On approach to target fighters cover (129 IAP) lost group Il-2, over target lost 1 Il-2 (anti-aircraft artillery-Goncharenko?) and on the retreat attacked by "three BF-109", which in turn knocked down each flight Il-2 (two were shot down and three were missing). Total lost five pilots: captain Mikhail Markovich Skrypnik, lieutenant Vasily Romanovich Goncharenko, junior lieutenants Nikolai Stepanovich Yakimenko, Vasily Evdokimovich Mamsikov and Fyodor Vladimirovich Tambovtsev.

Only the target for the IL-2 was 20 km west of Borok - this is the area of Morozha-Poluyanovo
A total of 215 SHAP flew five times a this day on a mission (this third).

2,5 hours later, Red Army soldier Semen Semenovich Abramov from his four-barreled machine gun shot down an enemy Bf-109 over the airfield of Adrianopol - the pilot jumped out, but resisted on the ground and was killed. This was "an officer who had 2 orders of the" Iron Cross ", by the name of Schmidt" - as written in the award document of the soldier.