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RP79FA
Serpuhov

Moskovskaya oblast

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178 IAP, which was based on the Lipitsky meadow of the Oka floodplain near Serpukhov. In 1941, Soviet fighters repelled enemy raids on Serpukhov, the railway bridge and the airfield. More than 30 pilots were killed. But IAP 178 completed its combat mission. The enemy failed to bomb the bridge and cause significant damage to the city.

The pilots of the 178th Aviation Regiment, which was based in the Oka floodplain, near the village of Lipitsy, took part in the defense. This regiment flew 1,695 sorties, conducted 59 air battles, shot down 22 enemy aircraft, as well as 19 anti-aircraft guns.

From the air, Serpukhov and the bridge over the Oka were covered by the pilots of the 178th

aviation regiment, based near the village of Lipitsy.

06.07.41 the first combat sortie was made.

The war is in the air. Fighter pilots of the 178th Aviation Regiment

One of the nodes of the air defense was the Lipitsa airfield, where the 178th fighter Aviation regiment was based. The airfield was located near the village of Lipitsy on the Oka floodplain. The airfield operated long before the war, but there were no hangars on it, and the runway was unpaved, on a flood meadow, which was not yet open at that time. The I-16 fighters, and there were 33 of them in total, appeared here in June 1941.