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1941 07 21 MiG 3 vs Dornier 17 - Mark Postlethwaite

The first Luftwaffe air raid against Moscow was launched during the evening of Monday, 21 July 1941, and it consisted of 195 bombers -Ju 88s from KGs 3 and 54, He 111 s from KGs 53, 55, 28, lll./KG 26 and KGr.100 and Do 17s from KGs 2 and 3 - concentrated against the Soviet capital. No fewer than 170 fighters were scrambled to intercept the raiders, and one of the latter fell to Soviet test pilot Capt Mark Gallay. His victim was a Do 17 from 9./KG 3, flown by Leutnant Kurt Kuhn. Gallay was serving with the 2nd Separate Fighter Air Squadron of the Moscow Air Defence Forces at this time, the unit having been hurriedly established and manned by test pilots from the Flight Testing Institute of the Peoples' Commissariat of Aviation Industry. A test pilot from 1937, Gallay made ten sorties in MiG-3s from July to September 1941, although the 9./KG 3 machine was his only success during this period. He gave the following detailed account of this engagement in his memoirs;

'I clearly saw the angular stumps of the aircraft's wings, engines and two-fin tail. It was a Dornier 215 or possibly a 217, and I was flying straight into it - my MiG shook slightly when it passed through the bomber's slipstream. Crosses, crosses on the wings. Immediately, as if by instinct, I fired a long burst at the crosses. This was the wrong thing to do, for the Dornier was still about 400 m away. I removed my finger from the trigger. Then, as I got closer, I started firing at the cockpit and engines. It seemed that I had hit the bomber. Suddenly, lines of return fire from both the upper and lower gunners' stations stretched out towards my fighter. I still do not know how they did not shoot me down. I managed to escape, and continued my pursuit. I made my second approach from slightly below so that the upper gunner could not aim at me. I fired a short burst at the cockpit and starboard engine and quickly slipped off to the side so that any return fire missed me 'I made several more approaches like that, aiming my guns at the bomber's fuselage and engines. The return fire also stopped. I fired and fired, but the bomber kept on flying. One last approach, followed by a long burst, and suddenly the Dornier jerked oddly off to the right in a banking turn. It seemed to hang in mid-air in this position for a few seconds, before the angle of bank increased sharply and the bomber dropped out of the searchlights and crashed a few seconds later'

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CV Kartubi

  Kartubi

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Name                    :    Kartubi

Place / date of birth   :    Kudus, August 2nd, 1973

Nationality             :    Indonesian

Sex                     :    Male

Religion                :    Moslem

Heigh / weight          :    170 cms / 78 kgrs

Marital status          :    Married

Passport number         :    K 808886

Address                  :

Jl. Palagan Tentara…