Это с нижней ветки. Отрывок из книжки Бергстрема и Влада Антипова "Graf and Grislawski", про тот бой с Ил-2 (сорри за английский, большой кусок. чтоб переводить):
On 3 November 1942, the battle for Ordz-honikidze, the gate to the crucial Georgian Army Road, which wound around the mountains down to Groznyy, began. General Ewald von Kleist, commanding the First Panzer Army, dispatched the cream of his armored forces against this stronghold. But while the cold and damp weather which created thick fog, prevented the Luftwaffe's activity during the first days of the attack, the sun shone on the other side of the hills, enabling Soviet 4 VA to carry out a maximum effort. The German Panzer troops were beset by relentless attacks from Soviet aircraft that came swooping down from behind the snow-covered mountains, and suffered tremendous losses. Among the participating Soviet units was 7 GShAP, which had been brought back into first-line service after refitting since early
August 1942. Largely due to the assault from the air, which frequently blocked entire German vehicle columns on the narrow mountain road, a counter-attack by the Red Army succeeded in severing the 13th Panzer Division's supply lines.
The 13th Panzer Division's crisis was approaching its climax when the weather cleared up on 5 November, allowing the Luftwaffe to take off in full scale. Alfred Grislawski took to the air at 0805 hours. 7 . GShAP's Starsfiiy Serzhant Bondarenko and Miadshiy Lei/tenant Yezhov both survived being shot down by a Bf 109, albeit with injuries. It is possible that they both fell prey to Alfred Grislawski, who filed his sixty-third and sixty-fourth victories against two 11-2s at 0825 and 0827 hours.
At 1110, Grislawski took off for his second combat mission that day. He flew south but was almost immediately called to turn north, where 11-2s were approaching Mozdok. Once again, it was the 7th Guards Shturmovik Regiment's Ilyushins, this time a | formation of twelve led by Lei/tenant Vasiliy Yemelyanenko (later appointed a Hero of the Soviet | Union) that had taken off from Groznyy Airdrome • with the task of attacking the Terek crossings. Mm Digora, a forward airstrip less than thirty miles north- • west of Ordzhonikidze, Hartmann, the Gmppenadju-^ tnnt Obcrleutnant Rudolf Trepte, and two other III./JG« 52 pilots were scrambled against the same formation. | But Grislawskfs Rotte was first to attack. •
The first sign of the Shturmoviks that Ghs-J lawski saw was thick smoke rising from a Terelf bridge that haci been blown up by the Soviet fliers.™ Then he saw the perpetrators, eleven 11-2s at six hun-f dred feet flight altitude. Grislawski managed to sneakJ in undetected behind them. He went down almost tof the deck, closed up against one of the 11-2s, then pulledf up and opened fire. The badly hit 11-2 slouched for-^1 ward and raced into the ground, creating a huge baUJ of fire. Mla(ishii/ Leytenant Fyodor Artyomov had M^l chance to survive. This was 7 GShAP's second lossffl^B that mission. Lei/tenant Lev Kuznetsov had previouslj^B been killed by the fire from the German AAA batto^B that was positioned at the bridge they had attacked. ^1
The remaining 11-2s went into a Lufbery circlf And then something unexpected happened. AH Grislawski attempted to place his Bf 109 into a firinf position against one of the ground-attack aircraft, ha wingman cried out a warning: "Achtuiig! There is or on your tail!" |
A quick glance over his shoulder toH Grislawski that one of the 11-2s actually was turningiB
•on him. A heavy Ilyushin dog fighting against a Mes-
Bsersdimitt! It couldn't be true! Little did Grislawski ^•^ |know that Serzlsant Vladimir Zangiyev's 11-2 had flown
|outonthis mission without any bombs or rocket-projectiles. Since all Soviet fighters in the area had been assigned to provide Ordzhonikidze with air cover, Zangiyev and another pilot had been instructed to act as "fighter escort" to his fellow pilots. And they did so with considerable vigor.
At first, Grislawski paid no attention to his wingman's warning. He knew that the 11-2 had a much larger wing load than the Bf 109, it was heavier and was unable to turn as tight as the Messcrschmitt. But .Zangiyev knew to utilize a lower speed to gain advantage, and the incredible event of a turning combat with aShturmovik on the tail of one ofJG 52's best aces took place. Next warning from his wingman told Grislawski | how serious the situation had become. The Shturmovik was catching in on him, and now his Messerschmitt ; shook under bullet hits. This was unbelievable! Grislawski pulled the stick harder, and still the 11-2 kept closing in on his circles. There was only one thing to do, although Grislawski almost felt ashamed to do it because it was such a morsel that he had on his tail, he opened the flaps. The two aircraft made one circle after | another.
' "That Russian is damned good!" Grislawski repeated it to himself over and over again.
He was turning so sharply that his Bf 109 started to shiver, on the verge of stalling. To stall now would mean certain death as both aircraft were very close to the ground.
"How can he manage this?" Grislawski said to himself.
Even if he was pulling his stick with full strength, he treated himself to cast a quick glance behind. What Alfred Grislawski saw came as a great relief: The 11-2 stalled and fell downward. It should have been the end of the Soviet pilot. But displaying both immense flying skills and a great portion of luck, the man behind the llyushin's stick did exactly the right things in the right moment. His aircraft leveled out only a couple of feet above the ground, and plowed down on a field as nice as possible during the circumstances.
This was in the last moment. A few minutes
later, Grislawski also had to belly land his damaged Bf mo u;^ ^:i-i,c.,i tA^..i...........^.. -I'-Kv-u-i _ --- - - . i
mo u;^ c^:^c,
30 percent damaged, enough to be sent to a repair sh in the rear.
