JG 52 victories

[Nokose]

Battle of Kursk 05 July 1943
Soviet Pe-2 bomber raid on Rakovo. The Soviet formation was attacked at 10:20 - 10:25 (M) by 8 Bf 109 and Fw 190. The Pe-2 (2/195) 82 GBAP flown by Mladshiy Leytenant Boris Monin was seen to fall 4 km west of Kazatskoe and pilot and crew listed as MIA.

Hauptmann Josef Haibröck 1./JG 52 Pe-2 (25) 09:20 35 Ost/61132

Aircraft and crew remains located a few years ago at Yamnoe (Yakovlecskiy District) Belgorod Oblast.

[Nokose]

Operational Report # 09 Staff 265 IAD 28.04.1943 Staro-Nizhe- Steblievskaya

291 IAP 12:15-13:50 20 Yak-1 covered forces in the area of Krymskaya. 12:45 at an altitude of 3000-4000 m in the area covered met in an air battle with 6 Fw 190 and 14 Me 109. Claims by 291 IAP: Kapitan Labshiny shot down a Me-109. Group claim by St. Lt. Kryvakov and Lt. Labrenev a Me-109. (No Bf 109s were lost).
The Yak-1 flown by Leytenant Loginov made an emergency landing on the airfield at Slavyanskaya.
291 IAP losses:
Yak-1 Leytenant Nikolay D’yachenko
Yak-1 Leytenant Nikolay Luchenko
Yak-1 Starshiy Serzhant Mikolay Yastrebov
Yak-1B (32129) Starshiy Serzhant Aleksey Belostokskiy
Belostokskiy fell to Fw. Werner Quast 4//JG 52 Yak-1 (33) 11:40 PlQu 85183 at 4500 m

Can not define which one of these German pilots shot down the other Russian pilots.
Uffz. Manfred Bisenmann 5/JG 52 Yak-1 (1) 11:33 PlQu. 81181 at 6500 m
Lt. Helmut Haberda 5/JG 52 Yak-1 (43) 11:42 PlQu. 75131 at 2500 m
Fw. Viktor Petermann 5/JG 52 Yak-1 (24) 11:48 PlQu 86783 at 4500 m

[Nokose]

Originally Posted by Nokose

Operational Report # 09 Staff 265 IAD 28.04.1943 Staro-Nizhe- Steblievskaya

291 IAP 12:15-13:50 20 Yak-1 covered forces in the area of Krymskaya. 12:45 at an altitude of 3000-4000 m in the area covered met in an air battle with 6 Fw 190 and 14 Me 109. Claims by 291 IAP: Kapitan Labshiny shot down a Me-109. Group claim by St. Lt. Kryvakov and Lt. Labrenev a Me-109. (No Bf 109s were lost).
The Yak-1 flown by Leytenant Loginov made an emergency landing on the airfield at Slavyanskaya.
291 IAP losses:
Yak-1 Leytenant Nikolay D’yachenko
Yak-1 Leytenant Nikolay Luchenko
Yak-1 Starshiy Serzhant Mikolay Yastrebov
Yak-1B (32129) Starshiy Serzhant Aleksey Belostokskiy
Belostokskiy fell to Fw. Werner Quast 4//JG 52 Yak-1 (33) 11:40 PlQu 85183 at 4500 m

Can not define which one of these German pilots shot down the other Russian pilots.
Uffz. Manfred Bisenmann 5/JG 52 Yak-1 (1) 11:33 PlQu. 81181 at 6500 m
Lt. Helmut Haberda 5/JG 52 Yak-1 (43) 11:42 PlQu. 75131 at 2500 m
Fw. Viktor Petermann 5/JG 52 Yak-1 (24) 11:48 PlQu 86783 at 4500 m

Since I posted these, I went back to the posts of the person who recovered Belostokiy’s aircraft and found another post of another Yak-1B. He found Yak-1B (#17116) of Leytenant Nikolay Dmitrievich D’yachenko (Дьяченко) in the area of the claim of Uffz. Manfred Bisenmann (or Eisenmann - will leave it to someone else to decide the correct last name)

[Nokose]

Michel,
I saw Eisemann in Tony Woods list but went with Prien’s Biesenmann.

[Nokose]

Sorry Michel, I don’t have anything on them right now.

Operational Report of the Staff 219 BAD 05.09.1942 (TsAMO. F. 319, Op. 0004798, D. 0038, L. 159 page 3)
At 17:10 the Boston B-3 of the 859 BAP flown by Lt. Barabash, Serzhant Klinov, Mladshiy Serzhant Vorobev and Serzhant Ivan Lukyanenok were bombing Mozdok and took damage from German AAA. They were then attacked by Bf 109 as they started to turn. Lukyanenok’s Boston then started a steep dive to the ground and allegedly hit a German column.

Hptm. Adalbert Sommer 7/JG 52 claimed a Boston (38) 16:08 PlQu. 4443/ N. Georgjewsk

I believe the crews of the other Bostons were trying to give Lukyanenok and his crew a hero status by ramming the German column. It would seem that an aircraft going down steeply would not be controllable.

[Nokose]

03 June 1944 Romania
17:55 - 18:40 (M) 12 P-39 Airacobra of 100 GIAP (9 GIAD) led by Gds Lt. Ivan Babak covered Soviet ground forces at an altitude of 3000 - 4000 meters in the area of Movileni, Romania. They met in a dogfight with 50 Ju 87 under cover of 16 Fw 190 (SG?) with forward escort of 18 Bf 109. They claimed 4 Ju-87, 5 Me-109 and 1 Fw-190.
Gds Mayor Dmitriy Glinka
Ju-87 (40) west of Epureni, Romania
Ju-87 (41) west of Epureni
Fw-190 (42) Movileni station
Gds Mayor Mikhail Petrov
Me-109 (4) 4 km west of Movileni
Gds Ml. Lt. Vyacheslav Anton‘ev
Me-109 (5) Khorleshti (Horlesti, Romania)
Gds Lt. Ruchek
Me-109
Gds Ml. Lt. Grigoriy Dol‘nikov
Ju-87 (4) east of Movileni station
Me-109 (5) Motnieshti
2 group victories claimed
Soviet losses: P-39 Airacobra Gds Ml. Lt. Unreadable name, parachuted out of the fighter.
(Journal of Combat Operations 100 GIAP 29.05.1944 - 10.05.1945 page 10)

Obfhr. Franz Gärtner 5/JG 52 Airacobra (2) 17:17 at an altitude of 1000 meters PlQu. 78674

II/JG 52 reported no losses of Bf 109

[Charles Bavarois]

Regarding #129

Summarische Verlustmeldungen for II./JG 52 on 3rd June 1944 show 1 Bf 109 damaged by flak and 1 Bf 109 lost due to "Bordwaffenbeschuss, feindbeobachtet". Crew not harmed as no losses of pilots know.

[Nokose]

4 April 1944
2 Yak-9D of 728 IAP attempted to take off from the airfield at Zubiv, Ukraine as their field was under attack by III/JG 52. The Yak-9D flown by Starshiy Leytenant Arknip Melashenko was shot down but landed on the fuselage and the fighter was sent to the rear repair shop because of the damage. Melashenko was unharmed. The 728 IAP had 13 Yak-9D damaged by bullet holes from the strafing.

Oberleutnant Frederich Obleser 8./JG 52 claimed a LaGG (93) at 14:03 at an altitude of 50 meters. In Prien’s JFV 15/II has the date as the 3 April 44, which is possibly a mistake but in Tony Woods list it has 4 April 1944.

[Johannes]

Hi Guys

I checked the mikrofilms and Obleser's claim is on the 4th April 1944 anerk 391 it's the 15th on sheet 1 of 4 for that day, but the mikrofilm itself has a mistake, it shows 8./JG 54. I do remember twenty-five years ago I had problems to identify the name before realising the mistake.

Kind Regards

Johannes

[BenFolk]

Barkhorn Nr.215

“On the German side, the pair of Hauptmann Barkhorn and Uffz. Heinz Ewald from Staff II./JG 52 stood out in this fight. LaGG-3 shot down by Łukin was probably the victim of the leading German pair - Barkhorn reported that one Yak-1 was shot down north of the village of Gorki. The commander of II./JG 52 also reported shortly after a fighter identified as an Airacobra in the area northeast of Baksa. So, most likely, he was attacking the machine of junior lieutenant Derbyshev, whose diving maneuver and mouthpiece detachment were incorrectly identified as a hit and his 215th victory”, Lavrinenko wrote in his book – “Drei Falken der II./JG 52 …”. At that time, 4 Aircobras from 66 IAP under the command of Capt. A M Dobrynina flew to intercept bombers in the Arzim-Kobra area. At 12.15 at an altitude of 800 meters north of the border with Kerch, 4 Me109s were spotted attacking the LaGG-3. Dobrynin attacked the first pair from 100 meters on their way down. The second pair of rivals went to the pair led by Afanasyev. Dobrynin shot down one Bf109 from this pair. The letter awarding the award to Afanasev said that the airman was injured on December 16, but did not take part in the flight that day. He may have been injured in flight on December 17 when he made his next flight on December 27, and his Aircobra number 8 ascended again on December 19 on an afternoon flight. Ewald, who had won his fourth aerial combat victory, was shot down and had to make an emergency landing on home soil - perhaps via Dobrynin.
I think it was a No.215 aerial victory won by Hptm. Barkhorn


BenFolk