"Ace of Hearts" ("Kőr Ász") History of a fighter squadron 1936-1941

[Csaba B. Stenge]

Originally Posted by Mirek Wawrzynski

I wonder, which exactly plane was destroyed then, I think it could be civil version of TB-3, or maybe a bomber version too, others palnes do not fit to such large type?

Regards,
MirekW

Mirek, the book contains everything about the plane and about the Soviet leader, which they wanted to evacuate. Additionally, I found in the BA-MA an interesting report in the German 17th Army's Air Group's materials, which refers to the fate of Pettendi (I attached his posthumous German awarding document too).

Szőnyi's story is the same detailed one (I mentioned already his defeater in my aces book, but here more details) I can present a photo about him as a Soviet paratrooper partisan as well...

It contains details not just the 1/3. Sq, but about the Héja detachment (since two of their pilots were ex-Ace of Hearts pilots), and some details about the other units of the Hungarian Aviation Group, including the details of the Ju 86 loss, with the name of the pilot, who shot it down (it happened, because the bombers chosen in the last time a different direction and did not inform the fighters, they waited them for one and a half hour with running engines in vain)

But as I mentioned above, it is not just the day-by-day account of the unit over Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union, it is a pretty complete unit history (very hard to write a similar one in Hungary). At the end, it contains the details of the ex-Ace of Heart pilots, who fell later in the war (two by accident, three killed in action and one was executed)

Originally Posted by Dénes Bernád

the basic facts are all published in it

Dénes, I'm looking forward to it