Biplane fighter aces

Soviet Union

Kapitan Konstantin Vasil'yevich Remizov

1915 – 9 May 1942

Decorations
Date Decoration Note
05/11/41 Order of the Red Banner  

Konstantin Remizov was born in 1915.

He graduated from Kachinskaya flight school in 1937.

When Germany invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, leitenant Remizov served in 12 IAP. This regiment operated on the South-Western Front and was equipped with Polikarpov I-153s.

The regiment was withdrawn from the front on 9 October for retraining and from 2 November they started to re-equip with LaGG-3s.

On 26 December 1941, 12 IAP was renamed to 486 IAP.

They returned to the front with their new LaGG-3s on 15 January 1942, when they became operational on the Crimean Front.

On 9 May 1942, he claimed one Bf 109. On the same day (same combat?) he was killed in air combat.

At the time of his death, kapitan Remizov was credited with 2 biplane victories and a total of 3.

Claims:
Kill no. Date Time Number Type Result Plane type Serial no. Locality Unit
  1941                
  20/08/41   1/? Bf 109 Shared destroyed I-153   South-Western Front 12 IAP
1 29/08/41   1 Bf 109 Destroyed I-153   South-Western Front 12 IAP
2 01/09/41   1 ”Fiat-37” Destroyed I-153   South-Western Front 12 IAP
  1942                
3 09/05/42   1 Bf 109 Destroyed LaGG-3   Crimean Front 12 IAP

Biplane victories: 2 and 1 shared destroyed.
TOTAL: 3 and 1 shared destroyed.

Sources:
All aces of Stalin 1936-1953 – Mikhail Bykov, 2014
Soviet Aces 1936-1953
Soviet Fighter Pilots 1936-1953 - Mikhail Bykov




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