JG 52 victories

[Nokose]

Nick,
I can't answer that one as I don't have enough data (Tony Woods list doesn't give a PlQu. for Sterl). The only thing that I found concerning Lt. Tyutin is 27 victories claimed (& 1 group) was part of a group of 4 Airacobra that engaged Bf 109 in the region of Bagerovo (Kerch) and he was listed MIA. Maybe Andrey or Nikita could answer this one as they have far more data than I have on the subject.

[Andrey Kuznetsov]

Originally Posted by Nokose

Nick,
Maybe Andrey

Sorry, haven't any additional info

Andrey

[Nick Hector]

Nokose, Andrey,

Many thanks for taking the time on this one. I have noted it in my database as a possibility but definitely not a certainty.

Nick

[Nokose]

Haven't added any victories in a while so here is a few.

20 Aug 1943 Bomber raid on the Donetsk - Amvrosievka station
Pe-2 86 BAP Ml. Lt. Nikolay Stepanovich Kostin (KIA)
Pe-2 86 BAP Lt. Ivan Egorovich Bespalov (KIA)
Pe-2 86 BAP Ml. Lt. Sergey Stepanovich Bazygin (KIA)
All three shot down in air battle.

2./JG 52 Lt. Gustav Wiesmahr Pe-2 (12) 13:04 PlQu. 34 Ost/88423
Stab I/JG 52 Lt. Karl-Heinz Pluecker Pe-2 (6) 13:08 PlQu. 34 Ost/98128


06 Oct 1942 Above Tuapse (Shaumyan)
LaGG-3 (#2506) 246 IAP Lt. Aleksandr Vasil'evich Patrin (bailed out)

5./JG 52 Hptm. Siegfried Simsch LaGG-3 (46) 12:30 PlQu. 95754

[Nokose]

21 Mar 1943 the 2 VA sent out a Pe-2 50 ORAP flown by Lt. Aleksandr Nikolaevich Okopin for a recon. mission in the region of Belgorod. Okopin and 2 crew listed MIA.

21 Mar 1943
2./JG 52 Fw. Helmut Kabisch Pe-2 (4) 06:08 PlQu. 35 Ost/61324 at 6000 meters

[Nokose]

15 Jun 1943

LaGG-3 9 IAP ChF (1 AE) St. Lt. Konstantin Vasil'evich Romanov (KIA) shot down near Gelendzhike in an air battle and crashed into the sea.

5./JG 52 Fw. Otto Foennekold Yak-1 (34) PlQu. 85373 at 2000 m. (S. of Gelendzhike)

[Nokose]

07 Aug 1943 08:20 (M)-
Spitfire 821 IAP Ml. Lt. Sergey Iosifovich Ichetovkin (KIA). His aircraft was shot down in an air battle. The plane crashed in the swamps E. of Ol'khovskiy. He bailed out but his parachute didn't open.

5./JG 52 Fw. Otto Foennekold Spitfire (42) 07:45 34 Ost/76892 (NE of Kijewskoje)

09 Aug 1943 08:50 (M) -
Spitfire 821 IAP Aleksey Nikolaevich Ergov (KIA) in an air battle 6 km SW of Krymskaya.

5./JG 52 Fw. Otto Foennekold Spitfire (44) 08:17 34 Ost/75234 (5 km W of Moldawanskoje)

[Nokose]

A strange claim on this one but you decide.

08 Aug 1943 06:50 (M) -

Spitfire 821 IAP Ivan Petrovich Kravtsov is hit in an air battle and force lands his burning aircraft.

08 Aug 1943 06:30 (M)-
Spitfire Mk IV (# EP 39023) 821 IAP Ml. Lt. Nikolay Timofeevich Starostenkov (KIA) is shot down in the Krymskaya region by a "Yak-1". A Soviet commander scolds his pilots for not being more attentive to their type aircraft and who is coming up on them. The Soviet pilots believe it was a captured Yak-1, which a few months before one had landed at a German airfield by mistake.

4./JG 52 Uffz Hans Ellendt Yak-1 (13) 05:52 34 Ost/85144. Ellendt is the only pilot claiming in that time period. Kravtsov took off at 06:50 (M) and Starostenkov at 06:30 (M) which hardly gives Kravtsov time to arrive in two minutes to be shot down but he might have been a unconfirmed later.

[Nokose]

Correction on post #1 the passenger was Lt. Aleksandr Filippovich Makeev of the 274 IAP and not Ml. Lt. Evgeniy Ivanovich Kryukov of the 43 IAP. The date was 15 May 1943.

[Nokose]

15 May 1943
11:35 - 12:20 (M) Neberdzhayevskaya
Yak-7 274 IAP Lt. Viktor Aleksandrovich Shchukin (Bailed out) [Had claimed is 2nd personal of a Ju 87 at Moldavanskoe this day]

Yak-7 274 IAP Lt. Konstantin Petrovich Komardinkin landed his burning aircraft on the airfield.

4./JG 52 Uffz. Gerhard Hoffmann Yak-1 (18) 11:20 PlQu. 34 Ost/75264 S. of Krymskaya

Stab III/JG 52 Lt. Berthold Korts LaGG-3 (35) 11:12 PlQu. 34 Ost/85113 E. of Krymskaya.

Also at 12:20 (M) Ml. Lt. N.I. Khalilov 291 IAP belly landed his damaged Yak-1 at his airfield. No other German claims at that time for his Yak-1 so I can't say if he was unclaimed or one of the above.