III/JG 3 Victories

[Nokose]

20 Jun 1943 Black Sea Fleet VVS was involved in an attack on Germans in the area of Eysk (Germans listed it as Jeissk). Details can be found at www.allaces.ru for this day of the attack.

Soviet losses:
R-10 23 ShAP ChF (the navigator Serzhant Nikolay Alekseevich Zuravlev was KIA in the air battle. I could find no information on the rest of the crew.)
Il-2 47 ShAP ChF (3 AE) Ml. Lt. Kirill Efimovich Gerasimov (KIA) and gunner Serzh. Nikolay Viktorovich Borisenko (KIA).

9./JG 3 Uffz. Heinz Papendick R-10 (2) 03:45 15 km SW of Jeissk
9./JG 3 Hptm Wilhelm Lemke Il-2 (111) 03:48 SE of Jeissk
" Wilhelm Lemke Il-2 (112) 03:50 W of Jeissk

[Nick Hector]

Thanks Michael,

I am very interested in finding out more about Lemke's opponents in the VVS...

Nick

[Andrey Kuznetsov]

Originally Posted by Nokose

R-10 23 ShAP ChF (the navigator Serzhant Nikolay Alekseevich Zuravlev was KIA in the air battle. I could find no information on the rest of the crew.)

Pilot Ml.Lt. Nuzhin I.M. - baled out, safe.

[Nokose]

26 Feb 1942 III./JG 3 is flying protection and escort to the Demyansk pocket.
Lt. Emil Bitsch 8./JG 3 I-301 (7) 14:33 SE of Staraya Russa.

Yak-1 744 IAP deputy AE commander Ml. Lt. Nikolay Petrovich Makhov (MIA). Soviet records show in the region of Lysino (Which is to the northeast of Demyansk).

[Nokose]

Demyansk region of fighting on 15 Mar 1942.

I believe the following was on a reconn. mission because of the areas listed for the mission. Regions of Utoshkino, Zagotkino, Rykov and Ugoshcha (latter SE of Sol'tsy). Pe-2 514 BAP St. Lt. Efim Petrovich Gorb and crew (MIA).
Fw. Heinz Kemethmueller 8./JG 3 Pe-2 (10) 10:22 8 km WNW Litzinowo

Near Lake Vershchinskoe
Pe-2 514 BAP Pilot unknown. Bombardier-gunner St. Lt. Boris Plashkin (HSU) was KIA.
Lt. Emil Bitsch 8./JG 3 Pe-2 (8) 12:58 S. of Demyansk.

[GMichalski]

hi, Nokose
many thanks for your info

regards

[Nokose]

Demyansk, Deovichi, Dno and Sol'tsy region 03 Mar 1942 (Combat mission area)
Pe-2 514 BAP Lt. Semen Ivanovich Fedosov (MIA)

7./JG 3 Fw. Helmut Rueffler Pe-2 (11) 10:55 50 km SW of Demyansk.

18 Mar 1942 Demyansk region
Pe-2 514 BAP unk pilot. gunner-radio operator Leonid Yakovlev (KIA)

Not much to go on with this one. I checked all the JG units involved in this area and the following was the only one making a claim for a Pe-2.
7./JG 3 Oblt. Karl-Heinz Langer Pe-2 (4) 10:15 No location given.

Some of I./JG 51 claims around Demyansk give only the name and time with 1!

[Nokose]

28 Feb 1943
9./JG 3 Obfw. Sigfried Engfer Boston (57) 12:47 4 km east of Dubrowolje at 500 m.

Boston 57 BAP Lt. Mikhail Andreevich Budaev and crew (MIA) region of Dobropol'
(In the OBD it has the date as the 27 Feb 1943 but the correct date according to the combat information is the 28 Feb 1943.)

[Nokose]

08 Jul 1943 Soviet Reconn. mission in the regions of Krasnopol'e, Akhtyrka, Tomarovka (Take off 05:41 Moscow)
Pe-2 (# 6/174) 854 BAP St. Lt. Aleksey Vasil'evich Dudkin (KIA) (Only the air gunner survived) [In the OBD it lists the 07 Jul 1943 which is not correct]

8./JG 3 Oblt. Emil Bitsch Pe-2 (83) 05:57 PlQu. 35 Ost/6123 SE of Prochorowka

[Nokose]

I've found a few new victories but these belong to Stab/JG 3 which I've decided to add here rather then start a new thread. I was provided this by someone who has access to TsAMO.

12 Oct 1941
Lt. Eckhart Huebner Stab/JG 3 Pe-2 (23) ? hrs. 5 km NW of Maiojaroslawez
Pe-2 321 BAP Lt. Evgrafov
Maj. Guenther Luetzow Stab/JG 3 Pe-2 (93) 14:30 Mglin & Pe-2 (94) 14:45 Malojaroslawez.
Both of these possibly Pe-2 from 321 BAP no pilot information.