Air battle over NIS-1944
The one time that action genuinely
heated up between America and Russia
was on November 7, 1944.
Russian mechanized infantry were moving
towards Belgrade to support the offensive
into Serbia when they were unexpectedly
strafed by American P-38 Lightning fighter-bombers
that had somehow veered 400 km off course and
mistaken them for Germans.
Suffering heavy damage, the Russians
called for air support, and the result
was a dogfight between nine Yak-3 fighters
and an unknown number of Lightnings.
The actual results of the battle remain classified,
but American and Soviet sources both predictably
claimed high casualty totals for each other.
The American government later apologized for this
“regrettable incident” – surely one of the best
examples of bad navigation in WWII.
It’s strange to think that despite their
standing as deadly enemies for almost half a century,
the one time Soviet and American units openly fought
each other was a mistake.
Terrain Twnriver
Axis:
La-7
Yak-3
Yak-9T
Jeep
PanzerIV-H
Allies:
P-38J
P-38L
P-51B
Jeep
M4A3-75
Killshooter --On
Fuel burn -- 1.0
Field Capture is 10 troops
