Losses of Il-2 on April 14th, 1945 in Vienna area

[HGabor]

BTW, this OOB quickly changed, as for instance 659 IAP Yak-9M (S/N: 5315311, engine S/N: 445-487) and 897 IAP Yak-3 (ml.Lt. Dmitry Antonovich Ermak, KIA over Ruckersdorf in his Yak-3 S/N: 310292 -from Tbilisi-, engine S/N: 422-491) were both lost on April 14, 1945.

Gabor

[Kurtl12]

Thanks Gabor for your contribution. I was aware of Ml. Lt. Ermak's loss but not of the Yak-9M S/N 5315311. Do you think it took part in the fights over the Vienna area? Cheers, Kurtl

[HGabor]

Hi Kurtl,
Sure, I assume it was participating in the Vienna area dogfights. It was written off by the 14th as "failed to return from combat mission". Could be in prev. 1-2 days. No details yet.
Gabor

[Juha]

Originally Posted by Kurtl12

Here are some Luftwaffe losses (Hungarian Bf 109's included) for that day:...and I really doubt that the 15. USAAF (P-51) took part in this fights but maybe somebody will tell us more?

Might well be so, Hammel writes in his Air War Europa (1994) on p. 474 only that 15th AF heavy bombers attacked a marshalling yard at Klagenfurt which is rather far away from Vienna, being some 80 km/50 mls WSW of Graz and mentions nothing on possible claim(s).

Juha

[HGabor]

17th Air Army IL-2 units and sorties over Austria on April 14, 1945:

189 ShAD (1 IL-2 in Division Stab.)
- 615 ShAP: 7 IL-2s with 12 sorties in Sankt Pölten area (12 IL-2s in service)
- 639 ShAP: 13 IL-2s in service, but no combat mission this day
- 707 ShAP: 13 IL-2s with 25 sorties in Prinzersdorf area

-NO LOSSES-


136 ShAD: 30 IL-2s with 40 sorties in the Gerersdorf, Sengrabern, Nider, Maisau area in flights of 4-8 with the cover of 2-4 La-5s of 31 IAP.
- 210 ShAP: 1 IL-2 lost: S/N: 18872120
- 715 ShAP: dogfight, but no losses.
- 989 ShAP: 1 IL-2 lost: S/N: 18802121


306 ShAD: 10 IL-2s with 26 sorties in the Gerersdorf, Nider, Hollabrunn, Sankt Pölten area. (951 ShAP received 6 new IL-2s from Tiraspol.)
- 672 ShAP: No losses.
- 951 ShAP: 1 IL-2 lost: S/N: 1880702

The escorting 17 VA, 295 IAD, 31 IAP had no fighter losses, only the 17 VA, 194 IAD, 848 IAP due to flak: La-5FN, S/N: 39211664, engine: 8212182, marking: '64' - ml.Lt. Georgii Vasilevich Timofeev (wounded), his fighter crash-landed and burned near Neinfeld? ('Нейнфельд').

Gabor