ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 93942
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| Date: | Thursday 4 January 1945 |
| Time: | 11:20 |
| Type: |  Lavochkin La-5 |
| Owner/operator: | 530.IAP Soviet Air Force |
| Registration: | 99 |
| MSN: | 39211399 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Tarjan -
 Hungary
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
On 4 January 1945, Mladshiy Leytenant Aleksei Stepanovich Suhorukhov was the pilot of one of the six La-5 of 530 IAP covering 14 Il-2 of 639 ShAP in Tarjan area, Hungary, when they met German fighters. Suhorukhov was killed when his La-5FN 39211399 (engine serial 82111418, tactical code ‘99’) was shot down at around 1120 hrs.
A German ace, Hptm. Helmut Lipfert of 6./JG 52, claimed a La-5 1 km southeast of Tardos, a village in Tarjan area, at 1112 hrs this day. It was his 172nd victory (and the fourth that day) and his victim was very probably Suhorukhov. The claim and loss are almost perfects matches for both time and location, the only doubt being that several other claims are known for German fighter pilots over Hungary without any time and location.
Sources:
http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?t=1262 (various pages in this thread)
http://www.luftwaffe.cz/lipfert.html
Luftwaffe claim lists by Tony Wood and Jim Perry (http://lesbutler.co.uk/claims/tonywood.htm)
https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarj%C3%A1n_(telep%C3%BCl%C3%A9s)
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=47.661800&lon=18.443580&z=12&m=w
http://forums.airforce.ru/do-1945/7276-zavodskie-nomera-la-5-a/
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 05-Jan-2016 18:59 | Laurent Rizzotti | Updated [Time, Registration, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Country, Source, Narrative] |
| 24-Apr-2020 12:17 | JF | Updated [Registration, Cn, Operator] |
| 27-Apr-2020 16:54 | JF | Updated [Registration, Source] |
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