Highest scored VVS IAP in WWII

[Evgeny Velichko]

http://avia-hobby.ru/publ/soviaps/801_850iap.html

All i can help on this about 812 IAP

[Andrey Dikov]

Just check it out, a forthcoming book of Vlad Antipov:

http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?t=1297

[marsyao]

Originally Posted by Andrey Dikov

Just check it out, a forthcoming book of Vlad Antipov:

http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?t=1297

have not heard any update about this book for a long time, will it be published in the near future ?

[WhiteKnight]

No one can help me?

[Jens]

How many kills had 728.IAP?

BTW including these stats only individual kills or also shared?

[kolya1]

A bit late, but here is what I have about this :

812 IAP scored, AFAIK, 505 kills (though I don't know wether these are only aerial victories or all aircraft destroyed...).

Just like 402 IAP and a few other high scoring units, 812 IAP was a Yak unit part of general Savitskii's 3 IAK, and was never made a Guards unit, for unknown reasons but perhaps not unlinked to the "particular" personality of Savitskii.

As far as aces are concerned, the following flew with 812 IAP :

- Sr. Lt. I.V. Fedorov : 36 kills + 1 shared, who scored more than 10 kills on a 37mm-armed Yak-9T and at least one on one of the few 45mm-armed Yak-9Ks.

- Lt-Col. I.F. Popov : 26 kills, killed 11/12/1944 in an accident.

- Capt. D.V. Djabidze : 19 +2 shared ? (approximately, sources are varying)


And there were many others but I couldn't list them without doing more research...

Hope this can help,

Kolya.

[knusel]

Originally Posted by kolya1

...

- Pavlushkin N.S. 35+48(?) shared (more probably 48 as a total including shares, as this number seems improbably high...).

...

Good evening Gentlemen,

according to this website
http://www.soviet-aces-1936-53.ru/abc/p/pavlushkn.htm
Pavlushkin has considerably less.

Best greetings from Switzerland,

Michael