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Crash Landed YAK w/ Luftwaffe pilot
Nice picture of Speed Bird YAK , obviously after a crash landing (bent propeller blades) with grinning Luftwaffe pilot.
Any more information? Last edited by kaki3152; 1st August 2019 at 23:01. |
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Re: Crash Landed YAK w/ Luftwaffe pilot
The photo appears on this Russian website among others:
https://aviator.guru/blog/43557352038/Sava-i-Martyin A rough Google translate of the photo caption: Captured Yak-1B from the 3rd Fighter Corps of the Air Force KA usually associated with the well-known "werewolves." Feldwebel Heinz Sachsenberg, who is directly associated with the heroes of the narration, is posing against the background of one of the forced landing "Yakov" |
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Re: Crash Landed YAK w/ Luftwaffe pilot
This picture is probably taken from from the 1974 (?) version of the "Tagebuch des Hauptmann Lipfert". It was taken in Bagerovo airfield in October 1943 IIRC.
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Re: Crash Landed YAK w/ Luftwaffe pilot
If i remember correctly, the speed bird was a marking used by a Soviet fighter unit.
The picture in H Lipfert's book is different but shows the side view with a white number of "39". |
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Re: Crash Landed YAK w/ Luftwaffe pilot
From "Red Stars" by CG Geust et al: "YAK-7Bs of the 3 IAK (Fighter Aviation Corps) donated by kolkhoze workers of the Bashikirian ASSR at Kuban in May 1943 ...[T]he winged star was the corps emblem."
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