2RG_Lunatic: i think the reason why they haven't dropped the tanks was that they were on escort mission&tried do shake off Kozhedub's "Fw" (as they thought) with long range fire. Kozhedub himself was a very rough man, he could have mistaken the american fighters for Bfs+they were engaging - he...
This is only a matter of belief for you&it's more realistic for me - this accident was never used even during Korean war (soviet people knew very little of what happened there, so i doubt the need of highlighting some incidents in WWII then)
The only thing i'd like to ask is where did you...
I've submitted to the forum just to reply :)
Guys, there are no serious reasons for "soviet propaganda" to invent anything of this sort - we were allies after all&this accident was only mentioned in Kozhedub's book as a real ACCIDENT for which he himself was very sorry. Moreover, the case was...