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Aces of Spanish Civil War

I-15 Petrovich 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

KillsAceSideNationLater Victories
40García-Morato y Castano Joaquín crashed 1939
30p+7gGritsevets Sergey Ivanovich plus 12p in Manchuria; crashed 1939
23p+1gSalvador Diaz-Benzumea Julio plus 2 in Luftwaffe during WW2
23Zarauza Clavier Manuel plus 7 in VVS during WW2 ; crashed 1942
(22?)Goronov
21p+1gVázquez Sagastizábal Manuel killed 1939
21Morquillas Rubio Leopoldo in VVS during WW2
17p+34gOsipenko Alexander Stepanovich
17García López Arístides killed in WW2
16p+1gSalas Larrazábal Ángel plus 7 in Luftwaffe during WW2
15Bonzano Mario plus 2 in WW2
15Mantelli Adriano
14Mölders Werner plus 101 in WW2 ; crashed 1941
14di Montegnacco Brunetto
13p+6gDenisov Sergey Prokofievich
13p+4gBobrov Vladimir Ivanovich plus 30p+20g in WW2
13Presel Guido
13Guerrero García Miguel
12p+~60g+rStepanov Yevgeny Nikolayevich "Slepnev" plus 1 in Manchuria
12p+20gLakeyev Ivan Alexeyevich and 23p+13g in Manchuria and WW2
12Schellmann Wolfgang plus 14(13?) in WW2 ; killed 1941
12Gonzalo Hevia
12García 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
11Harder Harro plus 11 in WW2 ; killed 1940
11Velasco Fernández Nespral Joaquín
10p+6gSobolev Nikolay Grigorievich WW2
10p+5gCorrado 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
10Rodolphe Ghislain Charles de Hemricourt de Grunne plus 1p+1g in RAF in WW2 ; killed 1941
10Nobili Guido killed 1943
10Boddem Peter killed 1939
10Ramirez Bravo Emilio
10Orozko Manuel Rovira (Orlov Petr Manuilovich) plus 1p in VVS during WW2
10 (7?)Comas Borrás Juan killed 1939
9p+6gArias Antonio total 24p+g (inc. in VVS during WW2)
Beltran Vicente total 20p+g (inc. in VVS during WW2)
9Ihlefeld Herbert plus 123 in WW2
9Seiler Reinhard plus 100 in WW2
9Bertram Otto plus 13 in WW2
9Ensslen Wilhelm plus 9 in WW2 ; missed 1940
9Romagnoli Carlo plus 2 in WW2 ; killed 1942
9Zotti Andrea
9Soldatenko Ignaty Semyonovich killed 1943
8p+31gShestakov Lev Lvovich plus 21p+14g in WW2 ; killed 1944
8p+7g+?rSerov Anatoly Konstantinovich "Rodrigo Mateu" crashed 1939
8Oesau Walter plus 108 in WW2 ; killed 1944
8Mayer Hans-Karl plus 31 in WW2 ; killed 1940
8Knuppel Herwig plus 3 in WW2 ; killed 1940
8Tinker Frank Glasgow, jr. Suicided 1939
8Agafonov Pavel Yeliseyevich "Akhmed Amba"
8Devotchenko Ivan Alexandrovich
8Kovenev Fyodor Dmitrievich killed 1938
8Cortizo Bertolo Sabino killed 1939
8Falcón San Martin José
7 (5p+1g)? Yakushin Mikhail Nikolayevich "Carlo Castehon"
7p+9gSklyarov Victor Ivanovich killed 1938
7Balthasar Wilhelm plus 47 in WW2 ; killed 1941
7Tietzen Horst plus 27 in WW2 ; killed 1940
7Meroño Pellicer Francisco plus 20 in VVS during WW2
7Fedoseyev Mikhail Andreyevich plus 15(13?) in WW2
7Grabmann Walter plus 6 in WW2
7Andrés Fierro Ménu plus 2 in VVS during WW2
7Cenni Guiseppe plus 2 in WW2
7Ibarreche Arriaga Esteban plus 1 in Luftwaffe in WW2
7 (4?)Botto Ernesto "Gamba di Ferro" plus 1 in WW2
7Eberhardt Kraft
7Petrovich Bozhidar "Bosko" killed 1937
7Denisov Alexey Alexandrovich
7Shubikov Arsenij Vasilievich
7Jan Ferak killed 1942
7del Río Crespo Felipe killed 1937
7Lario Sanchez Juan plus 27p+8g in VVS during WW2
7Allende Isasi Javier
6p+14?gRychagov Pavel Vasilyevich "Pablo Palenkar" executed 1941
6p+12gSmolyakov Platon Nikolayevich
6p+8g (14p+2g)? Yeryomenko Ivan Trofimovich "Antonio Aragon" WW2
6p+7gAkulenko Prokopij Semyonovich
6p+6gKorobkov Pavel Terentievich plus 2 in WW2
6p+4gZakharov Georgy Nefyodovich plus 2(3?) in China, plus 10 in WW2
6Schob Herbert plus 22 in WW2
6Pingel Rolf plus 22 in WW2
6Pascual Santamaria José plus 14p+g in VVS during WW2 ; killed 1942
6Homyakov Valentin Ivanovich plus 9 in WW2
6Korobkov Pavel Terentievich plus 2 in WW2
6Suyusyukalov Nikita Timofeyevich
6Turzhanskij Boris Alexandrovich killed 1938
6Kopets Ivan Ivanovich
6Larios y Fernández José
6O'Connor Valdivielso Emelio
6Tarazona Toran Francisco in VVS in WW2
6Francois Armando
6Seidl Ricardo Emo
6Rochel Kurt
5p+6gGianLino Baschirotto "Giri" plus 6p+2g in WW2
5p+5gShmelkov Nikolay Ivanovich
5p+3gZaitsev Alexander Andreyevich plus 6 in Manchuria, plus 1 in WW2
5p+1gTarhov Sergey Fyodorovich "Antonio Gab" killed 1936
5 (6?)Degli Incerto Enrico
5Lützow Günther plus 100 in WW2
5Trautloft Hannes plus 52 in WW2
5Lippert Wolfgang plus 30 in WW2
5Handrick Gotthard plus 15 in WW2
5Braunshirn Georg plus 13 in WW2 ; killed 1941
5Szuggar Willi plus 5 in WW2
5Schlichting Joachim plus 3 in WW2
5Smirnov Boris Alexandrovich plus 4 in Manchuria and few in WW2
5Laboussiere William 2 in WW2
5Rayneau
5Dahl Harold Evans "Whitey"
5Kovalevskij A. V. killed
5Pumpur Pyotr Ivanovich "Julio"
5Osadchy Alexander Petrovich
5Polyakov Sergey Nikolayevich killed 1941
5Magrina Vidal Rafael killed 1937
5Pereiro Perez Julio
5von Houwald Wolf-Heinrich killed 1941
5Cesteros García Abundio
5Alcocer Moreno-Abellá Luis
5Manrique Garrido Antonio
5Muntadas Claramunt Jorge
5Murcia Rubio Javier
5Simón García Rafael
5Aurili Guiseppe
5Baylon Guiseppe
5Caselli Gilberto
5Monti Luigi
5Remondino Aldo
5Tessari Arrigo
5Zotti Nicola
5 (2p+2g)?Lucchini Franco plus 21p+52g in WW2 ; killed 1943
4p+12gYevseviev Ivan Ivanovich
4p+10gIvanov Nikolay "Panas"
4p+4gRuzzin Giuseppe plus 2 in WW2
4p+1gBaumler Albert J. plus 1 in China, plus 3.5 in WW2
4p+1gGusev Alexander Ivanovich
3p+6gNaydenko Vasily Mikhailovich plus 5p in Manchuria, plus 4p in Finland, plus 5p+13g in WW2
3p+4gSokolov 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+6gLisin Vasily Timofeyevich

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Who Sent What
MenpowerPlanesTanksArm.carsGuns
Nationalists
Germany26 500650200700
Italy80 0001000150162000
Republicans
USSR30008003501201500
other35 000320

T-26 light tank

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...

German fighter Bf109-B1

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.

Italian fighter Fiat CR.32

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 the law-voted Spanish republican goverment, stopping the weapon transit aid.

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 equipped 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.

Aviation in Spanish Civil War

Republican Aviation Nationalist Aviation
Republicans Fighters - delivery Nationalist Fighters - delivery
Republican Bombers - delivery Nationalist Bombers - delivery

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