research by Oleg Korytov All photos are courtesy of Naval Academy Museum, St-Petersburg [email protected] (remove .nospam) |
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Ground crew looking at a dogfight.
Flying crew of 3-d squadron
Commander of 3-d squad Ivan Golosov was lost over Pillau on April 1945,
when his fighter received a direct hit by large caliber AAA.
When he was killed he was already at the 21 IAP VVS KBF. Batievskii
told this story: When Golosov's Yak was hit, its engine stopped. He had
no chance of returning. He had no chance of staying alive in freezing waters
of Baltic sea, and not willing to be captured, he addressed to his fellow
pilots by radio, said goodbye, and pushed control stick forward. His plane
dove straight into the sea.
Left:Smolyaninov was ordered on 5.5.1945 to fly over Bronholm island
and drop the capitulation demands. Survived to the war, in 1950-s managed
forced landing in MiG-19 with fully out avionics and engine at night without
plane damage.
Right: Barsukov. His fate has been described above.
Pilots L-R: Parafienko, Simutenko, Akimov, Tikhomirov, Doroshenko,
Osadchii
Standard procedure was pre-flight briefing, where questions of tactics
and possible actions in different situations were cleared by the flight
leader .
2 squad Pilot Osadchii. He was lost in August 1944 on a reconnaissance
mission over Chudskoye lake. His fate is unknown, presumably dead. His
flight leader was Doroshenko.
Burying a killed comrade in spring 1942. Field green camo, and no shoulder
straps
Commanders of IAP L_R: Stab commander Lt Col. Umanskii, Commander m-r
Belyaev, Deputy commander m-r Klimenko
Engineer Knysh, chief of recovery team . Nick name , “Bat’ka”, means
“Father”
Grinchenko
Dismemberment of regiment
Pre-flight briefing
Friends…
1941 flight uniform
Preflight briefing on the wing of a Yak-9U fighter
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