Crashed VVS 218 DBAP Boston at Bogdanesti

Unlike the US MACR's you are well familiar with, the Russian
stuff rarely put details on their MACRs, as such this is not
something available and would been very useful now.

I agree with all your comments regarding Kurrier Staffel
and the rush evasives....though I doubt that they would
confuse a date....it doesn't fit the German precision.

One side remark though, on Aug 31 the 31st FG escorted
12 B-17's to Popesti Leordeni for the airlifting in connection
with Ops Reunion....to my knowledge the 52nd was at
Reghin and not 31st....and 52nd caught the Luftwaffe
with the pants down. 52nd received a citation from Twining
for the Reghin sweep.

This post has been edited by yugit on September 08, 2011 12:36 pm

You are right, I was typing in a hurry.

Hi,
On the 8 (7?) of September 1944 soviet planes “Boston” or “Havoc” ( probably from VVS ChF) flew over the POW camp for American and Allied POWs near city of Shumen ( Shumla) Bulgaria ( and over North-East Bulgaria) and dropped leaflets with the appeal of General Tolbukhin. Any info ( incl. pic’s) about planes, crews… etc. will be appreciated…Best regards

Cantacuzino, one side remark .....I wanted to ask you if you have the LG2 scores list during the period June through October 41 ? I couldnt find it anywhere.

Thanks in advance

This post has been edited by yugit on September 08, 2011 12:42 pm

Mayby doesn't fit the german precision but how about soviet precision, are you sure about the date considering that Russian MACR are not like US MACR
I noticed that some romanian combat report after 23 august 44 ( in Transilvania) not matching the date of german reports for the same fights.

Stan

This was the same squadron 244 BAD BBC ( VVS) which flew from Balti earlier
on to drop supplies to Tito partizans on Aug 25,1944 escorted by a bunch
of YAK-9DD which ended up landing at Bari for a round trip to Italy.
These were not BMF A-20's , though BMF A-20G's performed recon over
Varna from Gelenjik Naval Air Station .

There are no photo available but
check the attached link

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/269/244bad1.jpg/

This post has been edited by yugit on September 08, 2011 01:54 pm

Cantacuzino....you are right Russian reports and generally Russian
aviation history are so confused that even the Russians
historians dont understand it well.

This post has been edited by yugit on September 08, 2011 12:51 pm