Originally posted by PanzerIV Well it was a nice plane, gotta love the 1000hp seat heater!Oh yeah, and P63 did see combat in Operation august Storm. Also the P63 may have secrelty replaced the P39s used by units on the Eastern Front.
Originally posted by PanzerIV P63 was not allowed by the Russians to fly in combat over on the Eastern front, if it did it was in secrecy.
Originally posted by Bronk No, it was a condition of the lend lease agreement not to use it on that front. But the Russians would never ever violate an agreement, now would they?Bronk
There are many unconfirmed reports from both the Soviet and German side that P-63s did indeed see service against the Luftwaffe. Most notably, one of Pokryshkin's pilots reports in his memoirs published in the 1990s that the entire 4th GvIAP was secretly converted to P-63s in 1944, while officially still flying P-39s. One account states they were in action at Koenigsberg, in Poland and in the final assault on Berlin. There are German reports of P-63s shot down by both fighters and flak.
