Article series "Bessarabia
1944"
For the Bessarabia maps included in IL-2 since the patch 4.09,
the following pages give detailed background informations on the
military actions in the map's area.
Available articles:
1944 - War returns to Bessarabia
The first battle of Targul Frumos -
early April 1944
The Dnestr bridgeheads of the 3rd Ukrainian Front
Katja & Sonja - improving the Axis positions near Iasi
- Introduction
Katja & Sonja - Diary part 1
Katja & Sonja - Diary part 2
Katja & Sonja - Diary part 3
Analysis of the Katja & Sonja
Planned articles:
German counteroperations versus the Dnestr bridgeheads
and finally maybe... the second battle of Targul Frumos (already
well-covered elsewhere)
An older (pdf-)file concerning the Air War in Bessarabia is
here. This article will not be
updated, but still provides a good overview.
The follwing sources are available to me (in chronological order):
1) "Lage Ost" maps via
Shingo Hikino, whose
blog is dedicated to
the Ostfront
2) "Red Storm over the Balkans", David Glantz
3) Claimslists by Tony Wood
4) several documents about soviet air units & pilots from
http:airaces.narod.ru
5) "I/JG52", "II/JG52" and "III/JG52", Bernd Barbas
6) "Romanian Air Force - The prime decade", Dénes Bernard
7) "Mein Kriegstagebuch", Hans-Ulrich Rudel
8) "Himmel des Krieges", Pokryschkin
9) "Rückzugskämpfe in der Ukraine 1943/44", Rolf Hinze
10) www.worldwar2.ro/arr/g8as.htm
11) Scans of "Deutsche Heereskarte" with Jägergradnetz, Blätter U-W /
46-48
12) Kriegstagebuch 8.Armee 1.1.1944 - 30.6.1944 from NARA T312, role 64
13) www.allaces.ru - calender and
further infos
14) "Attack of the Airacobra", Dimitry Lioza
15)
Soviet
Aviation in the GPW statistical digest
16)
Luftwaffes
monthly strength returns for January 1944
17) "Unbekannte Pflicht", Walter Wolfrum
18) "Das Tagebuch des Hauptmann Lipfert", Helmut Lipfert (in
my hands since 1978...)
19) "I/JG53, 1944-45", Dr. Jürgen Prien
21) A lot of detail information was provided by Christer Bergström, i.e.:
- additional actions, losses and unit movements of units
from 5 VA
- losses of II./JG51 and I./SG10 in April 1944
22) AIRMAG Hors Serie #1 "Bf109 roumains"
23) "Асы Великой Отечественной", М. Ю. Быков, Moskau 2007
24) Chronik Kampfgeschwader Nr. 27 Boelcke, Bd.6, Waiss, Walter
25) Several Flug- and Leistungsbücher of members of I./KG4 via Pawel
Burchard
26) Claimlists of 9.GIAD for 30.05. - 11.06.44 via Nikita Egorov
27) Bitva nad Yassami (АвиаМастер 4 1994)
28) "Lebe in Sekunden", ? (Militärverlag der DDR)
29) Kriegstagebuch des JG52
30) Soviet loss data of world war 2 from OBD memorial
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