ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 89317
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| Date: | Sunday 10 March 1940 |
| Time: | 14:30 |
| Type: | Tupolev TB-3 |
| Owner/operator: | Soviet Air Force group Spirin |
| Registration: | 22198 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 8 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Lake Murtoselkä -
 Finland
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
On 10 March 1940 the TB-3 squadron (ex 1 TAP) of Air Group Spirin attacked Rovaniemi in Northern Finland. The fänrik Gideon Karlsson of the Swedish volunteer unit F19 who was on a combat air patrol found surprisingly six TB-3s at 2000 meters over Rovaniemi and attacked them. The enemy aircraft turned around without dropping their bombs when he attacked. He concentrated on one of them and managed to damage it. It started to lag behind, dropped its bombs and descended, trying to find a place to force-land with all four engines damaged. Karlsson was forced to return to base after having been hit in the propeller. He had also almost exhausted his ammunition and returned to the rear base. He claimed a TB-3 shot down at 1430 hrs 5 km east of Kemijärvi.
The Soviet bomber, the TB-3 s/n 22198, force-landed on the ice on Lake Murtoselkä. All of the crewmembers survived the crash but when they tried to put on resistance against Finnish ground troops, five of them were killed, including Mladshii Leitenant Sergej T. Karepov (pilot), Leitenant Nikolaj Vorobtshikov (observer), Starshii Leitenant Boris M. Kogan (second pilot), Starshii Leitenant Kirill Shestihin and a fifth unknown man. Three air gunners (Starshina Nikolaj Grigorjevitj Globa (24 years old), Aleksej A. Zatonov and Grigorij V. Zaharov) were captured.
This was the last Swedish victory before the cease-fire on 13 March 1940.
Sources:
http://surfcity.kund.dalnet.se/sweden_f19.htm
http://surfcity.kund.dalnet.se/sweden_karlsson.htm
https://mapcarta.com/13636866
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 22-Jan-2011 13:33 | Masen63 | Added |
| 22-Jan-2011 13:34 | harro | Updated [Aircraft type, Narrative] |
| 13-Feb-2011 12:39 | Masen63 | Updated [Operator, Location] |
| 23-May-2017 10:56 | Laurent Rizzotti | Updated [Registration, Cn, Location, Source, Narrative] |
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