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| Date: | Saturday 23 January 1943 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Yakovlev Yak-7 |
| Owner/operator: | 1 GIAP Soviet Air Force |
| Registration: | - |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | near Sinyavino, Leningrad Oblast -
 Russia
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
On 23 January 1943 Ml/Lt Sergei Gerasimovich Pantyukhov of 1 GIAP was killed when his Yak-7B was shot down during an escort mission for Il-2s in Sinyavino area. He was buried at the crash site near Sinyavino. He was an experienced pilot, having joined the unit on 12 March 1942 and claimed one victory, a Bf 109 shot down on 10 July 1942.
Sources:
http://allaces.ru/p/people.php?id=00000004057
http://www.maplandia.com/russia/leningradskaya-oblast/kirovskiy-rayon/sinyavino/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinyavino,_Leningrad_Oblast
https://obd-memorial.ru/html/info.htm?id=37628159
https://pamyat-naroda.ru/heroes/person-hero107322457/
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 23-Jan-2017 21:31 | Laurent Rizzotti | Added |
| 02-Jul-2021 07:49 | JF | Updated [Operator, Location, Source, ] |
| 03-Nov-2021 18:33 | JF | Updated [Registration, Source, ] |
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