Event dated 19.9.1944 3 x YAK-9 shot down Belgrade

[kirche]

Originally Posted by newcomer

Maybe it will help if you quoted the names of that pilots?

Hello,
Vlasov Nikolay Alekseevich
https://pamyat-naroda.ru/heroes/memo..._plen272051666

Semenov Viktor Nikolaevich
https://pamyat-naroda.ru/heroes/memo..._plen272193013

Schchankin (Shankin, Shapkin) Vasily Rufeevich
https://pamyat-naroda.ru/heroes/kld-..._officer203355
https://pamyat-naroda.ru/heroes/memo...esenie84462061
https://pamyat-naroda.ru/heroes/kld-..._officer416081

According to documents 10 Gw.ShAD - flight 168 Gw.IAP 19.09.1944 from the airfield of the "Banyasa" (near Bucharest) to the airfield "Balomyirul-De-Kempeni"

Non-combat losses of 10 gw.Shad for September 1944: "Total non-combat losses of 5 fighters - 4 Yak-1b and 1 Yak-9.
Сircumstances: during the flight of four Yak-1b crews from the Bucharest airfield to the new location (Balomyirul-De-Kempeni airfield), they did not land at their own airfield, the location and condition of the crews is not known..." (From TsAMO RF, fund 327, inventory 4999, case 187)

[newcomer]

Thank you Kirche for your kind reply.

regards

Newcomer

[HGabor]

168 GvIAP also had another 'loss' on Sept 19, 1944 in Bucharest. 17 VA, 236 IAD, 168 GvIAP pilot Ml.Lt. Aleksandr Fedorovich Grachev was shot dead by Soviet military police (MP) patrol along with his friend Sorokin after a drinking party, while things got out of hands and the patrol tried to intervene.

Gabor