Вот сценарий бы поставить из Дмитрия Лозы книги - “Attack of the Aircobras: Soviet Aces, American P-39s, and the Air War against Germany”

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An aerial engagement occurred on 22 March, 1943 that veterans of the regiment have remembered for the rest of their lives. It is likely that the enemy remembered it for some time as well. A group of eight Airacobras, led by Senior Lieutenant Mikhail Petrov, was patrolling in the area of Petrovskaya. The ground vectoring station transmitted the signal "33" ("You may return home!"). The P-39s began to depart for their airfield. At that moment four Messerschmitts appeared on the flank. The group launched a persistent pursuit of our fighters, clearly intending to attack them from the rear quadrant. Petrov gave the command to come around 180 degrees to fend off the Germans' attack. The P-39s assumed an echelon right combat formation of two foursomes. The group of Messerschmitts that had been chasing them veered off.

The voice of Pavel Berestnev broke in, "Bandits, left 550 [yards]!" Another group of eight Bf-109s was preparing to attack Petrov's group from above. The P-39s made a ninety-degree turn. They were all now in a single line, prepared to counterattack the enemy eight-ship formation on a converging course. Then in the earphones came a subsequent, alarming report from Ivan Babak, "Messerschmitt behind us!" Thus warned, the P-39 pilots observed yet another group of German fighters, just now diving on Petrov's wingman. All the Soviet pilots understood that the first foursome of Bf-109s that they had detected were the bait. Their purpose was to attract the attention of our patrolling aircraft and create conditions favorable for an attack by the other two powerful groups. The Soviet aircraft would be subjected to attack from various directions (the "pincer" method) that they could not repel.

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