58 SBAP Pe-2 shot down by Ltn Sarvanto

[Juha Tompuri]

Photos of probably Ltn Sarvanto shot down 58 SBAP early model Pe-2 over Savero, Sippola 29th June 1941 (wrong date at the original photo caption?)

[olia]

29/06/1941 in 58 SBAP did not return from reconnaissance flight to Kouvala -Utti-Simola (? Sippola)
sen.leytenant Uglitskih Georgiy Akimovich (1914 Sverdlovsk region)
lance sergeant Solomatin Nikolai Ignatievich (1919 Crimea)
Perhaps killed

[Juha Tompuri]

Thanks, olia

The book:

http://ahm.valka.cz/index.php?main_page ... g0pfi859h3
...briefly mentions about the fight that Capt. Sarvanto saw one crew member bailing out from the plane.

Here http://sa-kuva.fi/ is also a photo (SA- kuva 21736) of a fallen crew member near the plane wreck.
That can be seen for instance by using (the SA-photo number) 21736 as a search word there.
Warning, a graphic photo.

Regards, Juha

[Juha Tompuri]

C-F Geust writes at an article at book Prisoners of War and Internees A Book of Articles by the National Archives
by Lars Westerlund (ed.)
http://www.arkisto.fi//uploads/Palvelut ... UT_WEB.pdf
at page 250 that a Pe-2 crew member Lieutenant Ponomarenko, Artem Maksimovitsh, was captured at the day the plane South of Utti (Savero).
Released back to SU 1944.

Regards, Juha

[olia]

This is one crew 4 squadron 58 SBAP 2 SAD
Ponomarenko-pilot
Uglitskih-gunner-bombardier
Solomatin- gunner-radioman

The regiment was in Staraya Russa, and operated in Estonia, Latvia, then Pskov - Leningrad. Had 39 SB and 16 Pe-2 which were new planes and the crews were not trained to fly on them. In September 1941 moved to Saratov region for retraining to fly on the Pe-2

[Juha Tompuri]

Dug up pieces of the wreck http://www.flickr.com/photos/saminkuvat ... 827141158/
... at Karelian Aviation museum
http://www.karjalanilmailumuseo.fi/

Regards, Juha

[Juha Tompuri]

Had 39 SB and 16 Pe-2 which were new planes and the crews were not trained to fly on them. In September 1941 moved to Saratov region for retraining to fly on the Pe-2

At page 221 at the already earlier mentioned http://www.arkisto.fi//uploads/Palvelut ... UT_WEB.pdf
writes that Ponomarenko (Ukrainian) when captured had logged about 7 hours flying time with Pe-2

Regards, Juha

[Juha Tompuri]

At page 33 of this book: http://books.google.fi/books?id=WCp5egF ... &q&f=false
...there is a short description about the battle in question.

Regards, Juha