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Aces of Spanish Civil War

				Spain (Republicans)				Spain (Nationalists)
				USSR				Italy
				France				Germany
				USA				Belgium
				Yugoslavia
				CzechoSlovakia
				Mexico
				Bulgaria
				Austria

_p = individual ( personal ) aerial victories
_g = shared ( group, collective ) aerial victories
_c = captured ( forced to land ) planes
_r = ground ( strafed or bombed planes ) victories

Kills	Ace	Side	Nation	Later Victories
40	García-Morato y Castano Joaquín			crashed 1939
30p+7g	Gritsevets Sergey Ivanovich			plus 12p in Manchuria; crashed 1939
23p+1g	Salvador Diaz-Benzumea Julio			plus 2 in Luftwaffe during WW2
23	Zarauza Clavier Manuel			plus 7 in VVS during WW2 ; crashed 1942
(22?)	Goronov
21p+1g	Vázquez Sagastizábal Manuel			killed 1939
21	Morquillas Rubio Leopoldo			in VVS during WW2
17p+34g	Osipenko Alexander Stepanovich
17	García López Arístides			killed in WW2
16p+1g	Salas Larrazábal Ángel			plus 7 in Luftwaffe during WW2
15	Bonzano Mario			plus 2 in WW2
15	Mantelli Adriano
14	Mölders Werner			plus 101 in WW2 ; crashed 1941
14	di Montegnacco Brunetto
13p+6g	Denisov Sergey Prokofievich
13p+4g	Bobrov Vladimir Ivanovich			plus 30p+20g in WW2
13	Presel Guido
13	Guerrero García Miguel
12p+~60g+r	Stepanov Yevgeny Nikolayevich "Slepnev"			plus 1 in Manchuria
12p+20g	Lakeyev Ivan Alexeyevich			and 23p+13g in Manchuria and WW2
12	Schellmann Wolfgang			plus 14(13?) in WW2 ; killed 1941
12	Gonzalo Hevia
12	García Pardo Miguel			crashed 1939
(12?)	García Cano Antonio			plus 6 in VVS during WW2
11 (21?)	García de la Calle Andres
11 (16?)	Aguirre López Manuel
11	Harder Harro			plus 11 in WW2 ; killed 1940
11	Velasco Fernández Nespral Joaquín
10p+6g	Sobolev Nikolay Grigorievich			WW2
10p+5g	Corrado Ricci			plus 2p+1r in WW2
10 (23?)	Bravo Fernández José Maria			in VVS during WW2
10 (~20?)	Zambudio Martinez Miguel
10 (11?)	Bayo Alexandri Carlos			plus 2 in Luftwaffe in WW2
10 (11?)	Guides Abel			killed 1937
10	Rodolphe Ghislain Charles de Hemricourt de Grunne			plus 1p+1g in RAF in WW2 ; killed 1941
10	Nobili Guido			killed 1943
10	Boddem Peter			killed 1939
10	Ramirez Bravo Emilio
10	Orozko Manuel Rovira (Orlov Petr Manuilovich)			plus 1p in VVS during WW2
10 (7?)	Comas Borrás Juan			killed 1939
9p+6g	Arias Antonio			total 24p+g (inc. in VVS during WW2)
	Beltran Vicente			total 20p+g (inc. in VVS during WW2)
9	Ihlefeld Herbert			plus 123 in WW2
9	Seiler Reinhard			plus 100 in WW2
9	Bertram Otto			plus 13 in WW2
9	Ensslen Wilhelm			plus 9 in WW2 ; missed 1940
9	Romagnoli Carlo			plus 2 in WW2 ; killed 1942
9	Zotti Andrea
9	Soldatenko Ignaty Semyonovich			killed 1943
8p+31g	Shestakov Lev Lvovich			plus 21p+14g in WW2 ; killed 1944
8p+7g+?r	Serov Anatoly Konstantinovich "Rodrigo Mateu"			crashed 1939
8	Oesau Walter			plus 108 in WW2 ; killed 1944
8	Mayer Hans-Karl			plus 31 in WW2 ; killed 1940
8	Knuppel Herwig			plus 3 in WW2 ; killed 1940
8	Tinker Frank Glasgow, jr.			Suicided 1939
8	Agafonov Pavel Yeliseyevich "Akhmed Amba"
8	Devotchenko Ivan Alexandrovich
8	Kovenev Fyodor Dmitrievich			killed 1938
8	Cortizo Bertolo Sabino			killed 1939
8	Falcón San Martin José
7 (5p+1g)?	Yakushin Mikhail Nikolayevich "Carlo Castehon"
7p+9g	Sklyarov Victor Ivanovich			killed 1938
7	Balthasar Wilhelm			plus 47 in WW2 ; killed 1941
7	Tietzen Horst			plus 27 in WW2 ; killed 1940
7	Merońo Pellicer Francisco			plus 20 in VVS during WW2
7	Fedoseyev Mikhail Andreyevich			plus 15(13?) in WW2
7	Grabmann Walter			plus 6 in WW2
7	Andrés Fierro Ménu			plus 2 in VVS during WW2
7	Cenni Guiseppe			plus 2 in WW2
7	Ibarreche Arriaga Esteban			plus 1 in Luftwaffe in WW2
7 (4?)	Botto Ernesto "Gamba di Ferro"			plus 1 in WW2
7	Eberhardt Kraft
7	Petrovich Bozhidar "Bosko"			killed 1937
7	Denisov Alexey Alexandrovich
7	Shubikov Arsenij Vasilievich
7	Jan Ferak			killed 1942
7	del Río Crespo Felipe			killed 1937
7	Lario Sanchez Juan			plus 27p+8g in VVS during WW2
7	Allende Isasi Javier
6p+14?g	Rychagov Pavel Vasilyevich "Pablo Palenkar"			executed 1941
6p+12g	Smolyakov Platon Nikolayevich
6p+8g (14p+2g)?	Yeryomenko Ivan Trofimovich "Antonio Aragon"			WW2
6p+7g	Akulenko Prokopij Semyonovich
6p+6g	Korobkov Pavel Terentievich			plus 2 in WW2
6p+4g	Zakharov Georgy Nefyodovich			plus 2(3?) in China, plus 10 in WW2
6	Schob Herbert			plus 22 in WW2
6	Pingel Rolf			plus 22 in WW2
6	Pascual Santamaria José			plus 14p+g in VVS during WW2 ; killed 1942
6	Homyakov Valentin Ivanovich			plus 9 in WW2
6	Korobkov Pavel Terentievich			plus 2 in WW2
6	Suyusyukalov Nikita Timofeyevich
6	Turzhanskij Boris Alexandrovich			killed 1938
6	Kopets Ivan Ivanovich
6	Larios y Fernández José
6	O'Connor Valdivielso Emelio
6	Tarazona Toran Francisco			in VVS in WW2
6	Francois Armando
6	Seidl Ricardo Emo
6	Rochel Kurt
5p+6g	GianLino Baschirotto "Giri"			plus 6p+2g in WW2
5p+5g	Shmelkov Nikolay Ivanovich
5p+3g	Zaitsev Alexander Andreyevich			plus 6 in Manchuria, plus 1 in WW2
5p+1g	Tarhov Sergey Fyodorovich "Antonio Gab"			killed 1936
5 (6?)	Degli Incerto Enrico
5	Lützow Günther			plus 100 in WW2
5	Trautloft Hannes			plus 52 in WW2
5	Lippert Wolfgang			plus 30 in WW2
5	Handrick Gotthard			plus 15 in WW2
5	Braunshirn Georg			plus 13 in WW2 ; killed 1941
5	Szuggar Willi			plus 5 in WW2
5	Schlichting Joachim			plus 3 in WW2
5	Smirnov Boris Alexandrovich			plus 4 in Manchuria and few in WW2
5	Laboussiere William			2 in WW2
5	Rayneau
5	Dahl Harold E.
5	Kovalevskij A. V.			killed
5	Pumpur Pyotr Ivanovich "Julio"
5	Osadchy Alexander Petrovich
5	Polyakov Sergey Nikolayevich			killed 1941
5	Magrina Vidal Rafael			killed 1937
5	Pereiro Perez Julio
5	von Houwald Wolf-Heinrich			killed 1941
5	Cesteros García Abundio
5	Alcocer Moreno-Abellá Luis
5	Manrique Garrido Antonio
5	Muntadas Claramunt Jorge
5	Murcia Rubio Javier
5	Simón García Rafael
5	Aurili Guiseppe
5	Baylon Guiseppe
5	Caselli Gilberto
5	Monti Luigi
5	Remondino Aldo
5	Tessari Arrigo
5	Zotti Nicola
5 (2p+2g)?	Lucchini Franco			plus 21p+52g in WW2 ; killed 1943
4p+12g	Yevseviev Ivan Ivanovich
4p+10g	Ivanov Nikolay "Panas"
4p+4g	Ruzzin Giuseppe			plus 2 in WW2
4p+1g	Baumler Albert J.			plus 1 in China, plus 3.5 in WW2
4p+1g	Gusev Alexander Ivanovich
3p+6g	Naydenko Vasily Mikhailovich			plus 5p in Manchuria, plus 4p in Finland, plus 5p+13g in WW2
3p+4g	Sokolov Ivan Vasilievich			killed 1937
	Finn Ilya			crashed 1937
	Kovtun Karp "Yan" Ivanovich			killed 1936
	Korous Walter
	Dobiash Tom
	Orozko Manuel Rovira			in VVS during WW2
2p+6g	Lisin Vasily Timofeyevich

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Who Sent What

	Menpower	Planes	Tanks	Arm.cars	Guns
	Nationalists
Germany	26 500	650	200		700
Italy	80 000	1000	150	16	2000
	Republicans
USSR	3000	800	350	120	1500
other	35 000	320

USSR sent to Spain:

800 planes (25 I-15/M-22 and 171 I-15/M-25), I-152; UTI-4, I-16 type 5, type 6, type 10; R-5; R-Z; SB-2)
350 tanks (~300 T-26; 50 BT-5)
120 arm.cars (80 BA-6; 33 FAI; 7 BA-I)
1500 guns (45mm, 76mm etc.)
20000+ MGs (DT, Maxim) ; ~500000 rifles (Mosin)
torp.boats, trucks, radiostations, searchlights, ammunition, fuel, and so on.

InterBrigades (31000 men):

9000 French, 3000 Germans, 3000 Poles, 3500 Italians, 2500 Americans, 2000 British, 1000 Chehoslovaks, 1000 Autsrians, also Yugoslavians, Hungarians, Scandinavians, Canadians, Belgians, Romanians...

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Germany used in Spain:

650 planes (He51, He112, Ar69, Bf109B, Bf109C, Bf109E, Ju52, Ju86, Ju87, He45C, He46C, He59B, He60D, He70F, He111B, HS123, HS126, Do17E, Do17P, ..)
200 tanks (Pz.IA and Pz.IB)
military ships; over 700 guns (37mm PAK36, ..), infantry weapon and so on.

Italy sent to Spain:

1000 planes (CR.32. CR32bis, Ro.37, G.50, SM.81, SM.79, CANT Z.501, CANT Z.506, BA.65, BR.20, CA.310)
150 tankettes (CV-3/33, CV-3/35, CVLF-3)
16 arm.cars (17M)
about 2000 guns (20mm, 47mm, 65mm, ..),
infantry weapon (incl. 240 000 rifles),
2 submarines and 4 destroyers,
8000 cars,
ammunition and so on

Also, German, Italian and even British fleets supported the rebels.
France acted against law-voted Spanish republican goverment, stopping weapon transit aid.

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Some aerial combats

4th November 1936: the first I-15 combat. 11 Chatos led by P.V.Rychagov attacked 9 He51 and shot down 4 of them. (It's the one of few examples when the Republicans had number superiority. In most cases that was on the contrary, especially in the end of the war - because of huge German and Italian help to the Nationalists.) In the same day, I-15s downed and damaged some Fiats. Soviet planes had no combat losses, but 2 pilots mistakenly sat to an enemy airfield. The fascists killed them and cut one of them and drop his body parts in a box to Republican positions - what a chivalry...

6th November 1936: the first air combat over Madrid Junkerses and Fiats tried to bomb the capital again. But this time the Republicans have Soviet fighters and shot down 9 fascist planes.

November 1936: The big melee over 200 planes (I-15, I-16, R-5 vs He51, CR.32). the Republican losses: 4 planes ; the Nationalist losses: 15 planes

15th May 1937: the 1st downed Messerschmitt-109, the victory of Leopoldo Morquillas Rubio.

29th May 1937: German brand-new heavy cruiser "Deutschland" was attacked by two SB bombers (commanded by Ostryakov) which achieved two direct hits and one point-blank explosion. There were destroyed: the 3rd 150mm turret, the one of boilers, a hydroplane; 23 men killed and 77 wounded.

14 June 1937: 14 I-15 along with I-16 engaged big group of enemy planes (Ju52/3m, He46, He51, CR-32). Nationalists losses: 1 Junkers and 6 ftrs, Republican losses two I-15 and two I-16.

8th July 1937: the 1st Messerschmitt combat over Madrid. It was initiated as I-15's (10 planes) combat vs bigger number of Fiats (20..30). Three CR.32's were shot down; and one I-15 was flamed, but managed to ditch. Then 10 I-16's arrived and 8 Bf109's appeared too. In result two brand new German planes were shot down.

27th July 1937: the 1st night victory (a Junkers by Soviet pilot M.Yakushin). 1st September 1937, Belcite area: During the day Republicans managed to shot down at least 26 (downed to Republican territory) Nationalist planes by cost of only 2 own planes. 19 fascist pilots were POWed, including famous Carlos Bayo.

15th October 1937: ground strike to Garapinilios. It was the preventive and well-planed action which had great success. I.Eremenko was the flight leader of 64 ftrs. Two I-15 sqds led by Serov and Chindosvindo attacked the airfield by MG fire and little bombs. Four I-16 sqds led by Zarausa, Pleschenko, Devotchenko, Gusev wasted time in close escort, then strafed some ground targets too. Meanwhile 16 bmrs (SB-2's led by A.Senatorov) hit military targets of Saragossa. About 60 Nationalist planes (which were almost ready to take off to hit Republican airfields) were destroyed and damaged; AA batteries were caught at surprise and suppressed; 2 109's were flamed when they tried to scramble; fuel tanks and ammo storages blowed up; personnel barracks and just arrived buses with pilots were strafed. The Republicans had no losses.

5th September 1938: Intercept (I-16 vs Bf109, CR.32, Ju86).
the Republican losses: 2 Moscas ; the Nationalist losses: 6 CR.32's + 2 Bf109's + 2 Ju86's

The best mission of the time. In 1938, Sergey Gritsevets shot down 7 (seven!) Nationalist planes (incl. 5 Chirries) during one half of hour. The Soviet ace flew I-16 type 10, which one was badly damaged, but the talent pilot was able to land even in such situation. It was the best record until famous combat of Alexander Gorovets in 1943.

18th September 1938: 1st combat of I-16's type 10 equiped with instandart F-54 engine with improved hight-alt capabilities. In company with regular I-16's type 10 and I-15's eleven Bf109's were shot down with no Republican losses.

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Aviation in Spanish Civil War

Republican Aviation	Nationalist Aviation
Republicans Fighters	Nationalist Fighters
Republican Bombers	Nationalist Bombers

Materials presented by Santiago Vidal

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