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Okay guys, thanks everybody for answering my questions. But, if at possible, can you explain more thoroughly WHY the commander of IAP – who saw that particular fight from the ground especially mentioned in the report that the P38 was much more manuverable at the horizontal level and did not...

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OK.I'll take it. But the result of the dogfight is 3-5. From the begining YAKs had disadvantage: - 12(P38) -10(Yak) - low altitude(YAKs) So why was that the result? IF PILOT SKILL

After coming across limited sources on the incident that happened on the 7th of November, 1944, all I discovered was a report from the headquarters of 866 IAP. In this report, it states that at 12:50pm 12 American planes( P-38 Lightening) attacked a Russian Infantry that were traveling west from...