Yak aces

[keith A]

I am looking for details of the career and victories of Mikhail Ivanonvich Grib. I know he flew Yak fighters for the Soviet Navy.

[Leon]

At first: http://www.aces.boom.ru/all4/grib_mi.htm
Sorry I don't have time to search through books but Stalin's Falcons by Shores and Polak should be useful. The brief info is also in Mellinger's Yakovlev aces of WW2.

[Brian]

Hi Keith

I can't help much but according to 'Stalin's Falcons' he was credited with 20 victories, 10 by August 1942, having flown 250 sorties with the 8th IAP-ChF (Yak-1s). In August 1943 or 1944, he became CO 3rd Eskadrilya (Yak-9s then Yak-3s). Last victory was over a He111.

Not much help, I fear.

Cheers
Brian

[Evgeny Velichko]

Hi all

*info if u dont know that*

8th IAP-ChF

Aviation of Fleets, Abbreviatures:
ChF - "Chernomorskiy Flot" - "BlackSea Fleet"
KBF - "Krasnoznamjonnyj Baltijskij Flot" - "Baltic Fleet, awarded Order of Red Flag"
SF - "Severnyj Flot" - "North Fleet"

[Evgeny Velichko]

Here is link, showing his Yak fighter.

http://www.bellabs.ru/Fotab/Gallery/Yak-9_01.html

1st-4rd vict - July 1942, in one day.

12th vict -- ??????????? -- over Sevastopol' -- Bf 109
13th vict -- 10 feb 1944 -- Bol'shoj Babchik -- Bf 109-- 15:45
14th vict -- 15 feb 1944 -- ??????????????? -- ?????? -- ?????

last, 20th (or 16th) vict -- Jan 1945-- over Bulgaria-- He 111

He was shot many times.

[Dénes Bernád]

Originally Posted by Eugen Gross

last, 20th (or 16th) vict -- Jan 1945-- over Bulgaria-- He 111 .

If accurate, that's a highly interesting info - at least for me - as fighting over Bulgaria ceased in October 1944.

Does anyone have any further info? Exact date, location, unit the Soviet pilot was part of?

Thanks,

[kurlannaiskos]

Stalin's Eagles by Hans D. Seidl also has a brief listing for him.
it also has a small photo of him standing in front of his Yak-1.
do you have that photo already?

[Evgeny Velichko]

Originally Posted by Dénes Bernád

If accurate, that's a highly interesting info - at least for me - as fighting over Bulgaria ceased in October 1944.

Does anyone have any further info? Exact date, location, unit the Soviet pilot was part of?

Thanks,

Hmmmm... I'll see in my docs 4 sure

[Jack Sanders]

Grib flew with the 8th IAP from the beginning of the war. This unit became the 6th GIAP ChF on 03.04.42. Grib was awarded the HSU on 23.10.42. According to Bodrihin, he scored a total of 17 victories and so his last success must have occurred over Sevastopol. This would automatically eliminate the problem of a mystery He 111 over Bulgaria. However, to be completely sure we would have to ask MB.

[Evgeny Velichko]

Hmmmm....

Grip

- Grib.

Russian sourses i've read are not large about this pilot. In different sourses he had 16, 17, 20 vict.

S!