Loss of Guenther Schell

[Leo Etgen]

Hi Nokose

I can not really help you too much but Wood's lists have Scheel claiming three victories on 16 July 1943. I have a feeling that it is very possible for Korpolev to have been the pilot that was involved in the collision but that perhaps the Russian date is in error. Loss list information I have seen states that Scheel crashed at 8:06, some 12 kilometers northeast of Bolkhov and if Korpolev is listed as having collided with a German fighter at around the same time and place it probably is beyond coincidence. I have also seen a certain Lt Kozlovsky of 28 GIAP credited with having downed Scheel but have doubts about the accuracy of this information as the source, Dymich, is not always too reliable. On a totally unrelated track, have you ever heard of Leutnant Ernst Weismann (69 victories, RK, missing in action 13 August 1942) of 12./JG 51 being shot down by Kapt Petr Ovcharov (6 +12 shared victories) of 157 IAP?

Horrido!

Leo