910 IAP. JANUARY 10, 1943.
Weather: cloudy 10 points, H= 100-200 mt. Blizzard, snowfall, visibility 600 m. South wind 5-6 m/s, temperature -2* -4*.At 13 : 30 min. The pilot of the 910IAP, Captain IVANOV, returning from intercepting an enemy aircraft of the type Yu-88, saw a four-engine enemy aircraft heading 270 *. The first attack was made from the right front under the angle of ¼ at H = 2500 m. The fire was fired in long bursts at the arrows with the transfer of fire on the left internal motor from a distance of 100 – 70 m . After the first attack, the arrows did not fire.
At 13 : 35 min. Additionally, the pilots of the regiment, Captain KOZLOV and Senior Lieutenant IVLIEV, were raised, who were radioed to the enemy's Focke-Wulf aircraft.
The second attack was made by Captain IVANOV from the front to the left, accomplished from the angle of ¼. He opened fire from a distance of 70-50 m .
Simultaneously with Captain IVANOV, the first attack was made from the right, from above, from the angle of ¼ art. lieutenant IVLIEV.
The enemy plane went into a rare cloud cover, which did not hide it.
The next 4 attacks by IVANOV and IVLEIEV were made from behind, from above, from the left and from the right under the angle of ¼ - 2/4, as well as "pincers" with a change of places.
After the fourth attack, the enemy plane began to fall apart in the air, 4 people jumped out of the plane with parachutes. The plane crashed near the village of VENTSY. 32 corpses were found at the crash site; mostly officers who were being taken out of the encircled group near STALINGRAD.