history · 10 August 1942 · 82 years ago
German troops reached the Krasnodar-Pyatigorsk-Maikop line in southern Russia. Over Novorossiysk, five He 111 bombers of German Luftwaffe group KG 55 were attacked by Soviet LaGG-3 fighters; Soviet pilots claimed 3 bombers destroyed, one of which by deliberate ramming.
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