The Germans captured fighter yak-1B Squadron commander of the 6th fighter Regiment 148 Leonid Smirnov at the airfield. Of delivering 06.05.1943
Captain Leonid Dmitriyevich Smirnov, born in 1913, urož. Kharkov, AE 148 IAP's Commander, did not return from battle to cover-up their troops in r-not Neberdžaevskaâ on the Yak-1. On the account had +4 shot down 7 enemy planes.
