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Udet: Are you sure Mj Koenings wasn't shot by Zaitsev in Stalingrad? If you don' seem to believe anything from this side of Germany, Koenigs' scope in Moscow museum including, you can always check "Enemy at the Gate" - the original book by William Craig, not that shitty movie of course. At...

Does anybody knows what unit those planes were from? Who were the pilots? And when all this happened? The book states only "April 1945", no particular date.

The story goes like that: Kozhedub saw FW-190 near lone B-17 and engaged. P-51 flew escort (?) and saw radial engine fighter near B-17 and decided that was FW-190 too and opened fire. La engaged. As for why he didn't pull off - it's quite safe and easy to give such advise sitting in the soft...

Regarding Kozhedub's skirmish with P-51s. Here is gun camera with two downed P-51s. The book I took it from tells that one of mustang pilots bailed out and later said that they mistook La-7 for "FW-190 with red nose" and opened fire from the long distance. The second pic shows Kozhedub...