Barbarossa and the Retreat to Moscow: Recollections of Soviet Fighter Pilots on the Eastern Front (The Red Air Force at War) by Artem Drabkin

Author:Artem Drabkin [Drabkin, Artem]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781473802438
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Published: 2007-07-18T21:00:00+00:00

Notes

1.

Captain Alexander D. Senin fought in the 131st Fighter Regiment. He flew over 100 sorties and scored three individual victories. He was killed in action in late 1941.

2.

Colonel Yemelyan F. Kondrat, a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, was Commander of the 2nd Guards Fighter Regiment. He flew over 100 sorties and scored 11 individual and four shared victories. A ‘Hero of the Soviet Union’, he was awarded the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Red Banner (five times), the Order of the Great Patriotic War 1st Class, and the Order of the Red Star.

3.

Lieutenant General Yakov V. Smuchkevich was Deputy Chief of the Soviet Air Force and on the Red Army’s General Staff. A veteran of the Civil War in Spain and other pre-war conflicts, he was made a ‘Hero of the Soviet Union’ (twice) and awarded the Order of Lenin (twice) and the Order of the Red Banner of Mongolia.

4.

Captain Dmitri I. Sigov fought with the 131st Fighter Regiment, flying 123 sorties and scoring nine individual and six shared victories. He received the Order of Lenin (twice) and the Order of the Red Banner (twice). Killed in a dogfight on 26 October 1942, he was posthumously awarded the title, ‘Hero of the Soviet Union’.

5.

Colonel Viktor I. Davidkov fought in the 131st Fighter Regiment. He commanded the 32nd Guards Fighter Regiment from July 1943 before transferring to the command of the 8th Guards Fighter Division (formerly the 217th Fighter Division). He flew over 400 sorties, scoring 13 individual and three shared victories. A ‘Hero of the Soviet Union’, he received the Order of Lenin (twice), the Order of the Red Banner (four times), the Order of Alexander Nevski, the Order of the Great Patriotic War 1st Class and the Order of the Red Star (twice).

6.

Goncharov was wounded in July and Davidkov took command of the regiment until his return. When the latter was killed in a dogfight Davidkov became commander again.

7.

Lieutenant Boris M. Kozlov scored three shared victories.

8.

Major Semen U. Kratinov fought in the 40th Guards Fighter Regiment (formerly the 131st Fighter Regiment). He flew over 400 sorties, scoring 21 individual and two shared victories. A ‘Hero of the Soviet Union’, he received the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Red Banner (four times), the Order of Alexander Nevski, the Order of the Great Patriotic War 1st Class and the Order of the Red Star.

9.

‘Fokker’ was sometimes used by Soviet pilots as a colloquial reference to the Focke-Wulf FW 190. But the term is a misnomer as Dutch aircraft designer Anthony Fokker (1890–1939) had no connections with the company (founded by Heinrich Focke and Georg Wulf) that produced Kurt Tank’s celebrated FW 190.

10.

Lieutenant Colonel Nikolai T. Kitaev entered the war as a pilot in the 25th Fighter Regiment. He flew with the 40th Guards Fighter Regiment (formerly the 131st Fighter Regiment) from November 1941, commanding the regiment from January 1944. Flew approximately 400 sorties, scoring 24 individual and five shared victories. A ‘Hero of the Soviet Union’,

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