ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 269334
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Date: | Tuesday 20 April 1943 |
Time: | 07:49 MSK |
Type: | Yakovlev Yak-7 |
Owner/operator: | 274 IAP Soviet Air Force |
Registration: | 3779 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Gelendzhik, Krasnodar Krai -
Russia
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:On 20 April 1943 Yak-7B of 274 IAP was shot down by Bf 109 of JG 52 near Gelendzhik, Krasnodar Krai.
Sergeant Georgy Borisovich Prokhorov was killed.
The wreckage of the plane was found in the year 2014.
Sources:
https://pamyat-naroda.ru/heroes/person-hero104340856/ https://forum.ww2.ru/index.php?showtopic=4157005 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelendzhik Revision history:
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