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Bell P-39 top ten ace list
Good morning Gentlemen,
whereas only one Western Allied pilot, William Fiedler, reached ace status in the P-39, the Soviet air force used this unusual plane with great success. The following list compiles the most successful P-39 aces with their P-39 scores.
Cheers, Michael |
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Re: Bell P-39 top ten ace list
Hello Michael
Interesting topic. I also would like to know the definite P-39 scores. I only have some second hand info with unknown reliability. Grigorii Rechkalov – 52+4 Dimitrii Glinka - 44 Aleksandr Pokryshkin – c. 40 +? Ivan Babak - 34+5 Mikhail Komelkov – 33+7 Nikolai Gulayev - 32 Alexei Smirnov - 31+1 Aleksandr Klubov – 27+3 Boris Glinka – 27+2 Fedor Arkhipenko – 26+4 Pavel Kamozin – at least 23+6 Andrey Trud – c. 25+1? Again, my list is unreliable. Juha |
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Re: Bell P-39 top ten ace list
Hello Juha,
thanks for your interest.
http://soviet-aces-1936-53.ru/abc/g/gulaev.htm
Michael |
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Re: Bell P-39 top ten ace list
Hello Michael
thanks alot for the links and the extra info! Juha |
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Re: Bell P-39 top ten ace list
Hello Juha,
you're welcome. Another interesting candidate for the top ten is Vladimir Bobrov. Tomas Polak gives him 13 kills in the Spanish Civil War and 30 kills in the Great Patriotic War. According to George Mellinger these were only his individual kills and there were 4 additional shared kills in Spain and 20 in WW2. Therefore, that list might to be incomplete http://soviet-aces-1936-53.ru/abc/b/bobrov.htm with a minimum P-39 total of 17,83 and a maximum P-39 total of 37,33. Who knows more about this issue ? Michael |
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Re: Bell P-39 top ten ace list
Hi,
I think that the page of Mikhail Bykov will be interesting to you: http://owl-99.livejournal.com http://owl-99.livejournal.com/83703.html Best regards, Kirill |
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Re: Bell P-39 top ten ace list
Cool. Top ten ace lists ranked by individual kills.
Is owl_99 Bykov himself ? Michael |
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Re: Bell P-39 top ten ace list
Good morning,
how many of Ivan Bochkov's 6+10shared Airacobra kills were scored in a P-400 ? Cheers, Michael |
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Re: Bell P-39 top ten ace list
The P-400's of the USAAF claimed 45 kills, all in the Pacific.
Who was the top-scorer of that subtype ? Michael |
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Re: Bell P-39 top ten ace list
Michael I realize this is roughly related to the main thread but it should be posted in the Pacific section of the board. You will likely get a lot more responses there. Suggest you repost in that section.
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