ну и в начале войны тоже доставалось немцам по чайнику. вот:
And after this, for the Russians, very very serious operation... We were out on the sea, 3 Pe-2 came low over the Carpathian mountains. They couldn't be discovered by radar and they attacked the base from the west. We were out to the east over the Black Sea. And aircraft out there for maintenance, etc, (the Russians) destroyed them. And we had the loss of 40 mechanics and one of the top mechanics, a very, very fine Viennese. He got killed. It was very bad for the squadron.