PetrOs
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ORIGINAL: PetrOs In real life, such things happened, when the much inferiour fighter would kill or scare off. My greatgrandfather's last two kills were in a badly used I-16 type 5 armed with a pair of 7,62mm MGs only, with his wingman flying another similar rust bucket. The downed german planes were a He-111 and a Me-109F. Frontal attack on the He and probably shot pilot, as He spinned down. Other Heinkels of the same flight were reported to drop the bombs randomly and turn off. Then 'out-of-the-sun' on the Messerschmitt, which caught fire and exploded. Another Bf109F shot him down a few seconds later however, with my greatgrandfather surviving, but very badly injured, never to fly again. 14 bullets... Only surviving as when his plane exploded, his parachute opened, and he landed, unconscious, just a few meters in front of a hospital's air defence bunker - operated immediately. P.S. It was his 4th and 5th victories of the same day (13th and 14th total), and his 5th lost plane on the same day, too! (Take off in MiG-3, down Ju-88, engine damaged by tail gunner, forced landing on one of Leningrad's central streets, got police car to drive him to base, take off in another MiG, engine jammed on take off, forced landing, take off in yet another MiG, down a Ju-88 and Me-110, bail out with engine on fire, parachute directly to his own runway, take a Yak-1 from another squadron, attacked on take off, damaged but not downed an attacking Me-109, but yet another forced landing. Then the only spare plane on the base was a 10 years old I-16 with half of the guns and armor removed, used as liaison and training plane...) Wow, amazing story. Your greatgrantfather will most likely dont tell more stories, but it is here way to read more about him ? You should consider creating wiki page about him, since it will be great shame to lose stories like this. I must admire his courage - lose so many planes under him in one day and still be eager to fight and fly. And that how he was rescued ? how big chances are for that ? Just finished reading story book about one-eyed sturmovik pilot, and will love to read about this pilot too. Thanks! April 42, when it happened, was a quite hard time for the russians around Leningrad, there was no lack of targets, but also no lack of very dangerous enemies those days. Most of his regiment (5th IAP KBF, later renamed to 3rd Guards IAP KBF - IAP KBF means Fighter Aviation Regiment, Red banner Baltic Fleet - naval/marine fighters) was lost in this time, but not without some significant successes. As I am not a good writer, I rather let my models (my main hobby is ship and aviation modeling) speak, and I built a few of his and his regiment's comrades aircrafts, I also spent over 10 years researching his career, as he died when I was still a kindergarten-aged kid, and many his documents got damaged or destroyed in a fire at my grandparents' house... Personal mounts: I-16 with which he started the war. It was a newer Type 28. http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/16488-148-i-16-type-28-5th-iap-kbf/ MiG-3 "Bomber Basher" field mod, one he used in winter 41-42. Field rearmament to 2 20mm nose cannons, 2 12.7 mm HMGs in wing pods, and a battery of RS-82 rockets. Plane types listed in this model's articles are wrong, I got these clarified later with the russian state archive. http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/5509-148-mig-3-early-version-from-trumpeter/ P-47 "Bubble top" - his illegal kill's mount. http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/5509-148-mig-3-early-version-from-trumpeter/ He returned to his regiment in 43 as a non-flying political officer (rather as an educator/mentor, as skilled pilots were not many, and he had a lot of experience in the first war year). By late 44 he was "illegally" flying some training sorties, as he was offcially not deemed fit to combat. As his regiment received a pair of T-bolts for evaluation, he was evaluating it with another guy in Yak-9 flying cover. They were jumped by a pair of Fw190s, one of which was shot down by the T-Bolt. As however he was not legally flying, the kill was logged for his wingman (who also fired a burst in that Fw, so participated). Regiment: Hawker Hurryton II - russian rearmed (2 20mm, 2 12.7mm) RAF second hand Hurricane. 3rd GVIAP got a batch of these in late april 42, after they ran out of a mix of Mig-3/Yak-1/Lagg-3/I-16 which were employed in winter 42. http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/13048-hawker-hurriton-mkiic/
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