P-39 Airacobras over Roumania and Captures, Info on Airacobras

Dragos,where did you heard that story?
I heard the same story (Victor is my witness and the tape too)from E Hladiuk.
The only dif is that he flew Savoia.
I made some reserches since he wanted to know who were the German pilots.
I made contact with some Jg 52 experts,since Jg 52 were in the area,and they couldn't tell exactly because there were many vict .of Germans fighters that day,but the story we heard from Mr H was true.

I didn't hear it. It's from a book. I wrote the source in the post.

It isn't the same story at all, as it involved a different bomber unit, a different type of aircraft, in a different month of 1944 and a different location over the battlefield. Plus JG 52 did not transfer from the Mediteranean.

If I remember correctly, by checking the Luftwafe claim list for the day mentioned by cdor. Hladiuc, I couldn't find any P-39 claim, except one made by a pilot of SG 2, flying obviuosly on Fw-190Fs, not Bf-109Gs as the story mentioned. I think mr. Hladiuc misidentified the VVS fighters.

Hladiuk didn't said they were P 39's.
And neither about the Mediteranian.
But the story sounds very similar.

No, he said they were Airacobras. The story is about escort figthers intercepting VVS fighters. There are hundreafds of similar events in 1944.

Acording to Dicesare,he met a few times Aircobras,but there were orders not to angage in dogfights with them.
He smiled when he said ;"their engine was at the back of the pilot and the propelor axal was between his legs..."

C-2 do you by chance know or could find out on why there was an order to not get engaged with the Airacobras ?

Alex

I guess they were scared by the 37mm in the nose....

Has anyone ever seen/heard of an all-black Soviet P-39?


Matt

In the book "Romanian Aeronautics in The Second World War" there it's a specification written by the autor Cristian Craciunoiu and Jean Loius - Roba. At Chapter "Captures" they say:
"At 20th of March 1944, one russian AIRACOBRA land 14 km far from Fantana Zanelor comuna, Ismail County, and it was bring by air to IAR Brasov".
I know it's not much, but it's a fact to be investigated...