Romanian kamikaze

[Victor]

In an article in the latest issue of Top Gun Special, prof. Valeriu Avram mentions an episode, which was new to me.
On 2 September 1941, during a bombing mission on the Odessa harbor, one of the S.79s of the 71st Squadron (1st Bomber Group), piloted by adj. sef Dumitru Anitoaia and unmentioned onboard commander (the observer) was hit by Soviet AAA and the pilot apparently drove his aircraft in one of the ships in the port and sank it.

Does anyone know what ship that was?

[Dénes]

The only sources I have on Soviet naval operations on the Black Sea mentions that during the defence of Odessa in 1941, only three transport vessels and one floating dock (carrying locomotives) were sunk by enemy airplanes in the harbour or vicinity (no dates, names or tonnages given).

In total, thirteen various class ships were sunk in the northwestern part of the Black Sea between 20 June and 28 October, 1941.

Perhaps one of our Russian/Ukrainian members can shed more light on this issue (Victor, you might want to repeat the same thread in the Navy section, too).

[mars]

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In an article in the latest issue of Top Gun Special, prof. Valeriu Avram mentions an episode, which was new to me.   On 2 September 1941, during a bombing mission on the Odessa harbor, one of the S.79s of the 71st Squadron (1st Bomber Group), piloted by adj. sef Dumitru Anitoaia and unmentioned onboard commander (the observer) was hit by Soviet AAA and the pilot apparently drove his aircraft in one of the ships in the port and sank it.   Does anyone know what ship that was?

Victor, my opnion is that a "kamikaze" was a pilot whoes mission was to destroy an enmey target by ramming, on the other word, ramming an enemy target is his intention when he took off from the airport, it was no doubt that Dumitru Anitoaia was a brave man, it was obviously that he made the decision to ram only after his aircraft was fatally damaged, I know there were American, British and Italian fliers did the same thing in the same circunstance, they were not kamikaze

[Victor]

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Victor, my opnion is that a \"kamikaze\" was a pilot whoes mission was to destroy an enmey target by ramming, on the other word, ramming an enemy target is his intention when he took off from the airport, it was no doubt that Dumitru Anitoaia was a brave man, it was obviously that he made the decision to ram only after his aircraft was fatally damaged, I know there were American, British and Italian fliers  did the same thing in the same circunstance, they were not kamikaze

It was a figure of speech.
How about the Soviet ship?