What i would want to see....
Finnish ace of aces Ilmari Juutilainen (92 confimed) versus the single Soviet pilot...
A lone Soviet fighter, La-5, appeared over a Finnish airfield and started circling it. Others stared at it, Ilmari Juutilainen ran to his Messerchmitt 109 G-6 and took off.
The single Soviet plane saw him and kept circling. The pilot let "Illu" climb to his altitude and then both pilots turned nose to nose.
An unbelievable long one to one combat started. No other aircraft of either side was around. It was one pilot against another. One was great best scoring Finnish pilot, whose plane had never been touched by enemy bullet. Another was an unknown pilot, but a master - an artist. They fought for 10 minutes... 20 minutes... Might have been even longer, maybe nearer 30 minutes. Both planes climbing and climbing, turning and burning, reaching 4 km, 5 km, 6 km, 7 km. It was only in the end when a sudden ray of sunshine appeared, which Illu used and managed to get a single burst which hit the Soviet fighter.
It began to fall down, uncontrollably. Illu followed it, hoping "bail out, bail out". But the Russian pilot did not.
That must have been a dogfight, if there ever was one pure 1 to 1.
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Another combat of different kind that would have been interesting for me personally, was told by mr. Olli Sarantola, a local pilot who flew Fiat G.50, Brewster and Bf 109 G-6. He described one flight in summer 1944, when his Brewster flight was in interception mission.
They came out of a large cloud. And found 120-150 Soviet bombers below, 40 La-5 fighter above. And four young pilots with old, war-worm Brewsters in between.
One pilot, don't remember the name outright, just pushed nose down, dove at the bombers, flamed one and continued dive towards cloud escaping. Others got away somehow.
I can only wonder at those men. How they continued to fly and fight, even when they knew they face same kind of odds every sortie.
Meeting next Friday a Me 109 G-6 pilot... Let's see what he was to tell.
