page generated: November 14, 2001
compiled by Allan Magnus
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Bulgarian Aces: The Bulgarian Air Force used a point based system as follows: individual claim for a four engined bomber destroyed = 3 points individual claim for a four engined bomber damaged = 2 points individual claim for a fighter aircraft destroyed = 1 point individual claim for a two engined bomber damaged = 1 point shared claim for a four engined bomber destroyed = 1 point shared claim for a four engined bomber damaged = 1 point individual claim for a fighter aircraft damaged = 0 points Thus what constitutes an ace in regards to Bulgarian pilots? Should it be pilots with 5 or more individual victories, a pilot with 5 or more individual plus shared victories, or should it be pilots with 5 or more points? In the first case, there would be no Bulgarians that could claim ace status, in the second case only Stoyanov and Bochev would qualify as aces. What is presented below are the Bulgarians with 5 or more points as described in the comments section. Their claims, as individual plus shared, are also shown.
last name | given name | airforce | victories | victories shared | comments |
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Atanasov | Kristyo A. | Bulgarian Air Force | 1 | 1 | CO of Fighter School, 3/6 Orlyak; claimed 1 individual destroyed, 1 shared destroyed and 2 damaged for 5 points |
Bochev | Petr Angelov | Bulgarian Air Force | 3 | 2 | 3/6 Orlyak; killed 5/Oct/1944; claimed 3 individual destroyed, 2 shared destroyed and 2 damaged for 13 points |
Bonchev | Nedelcho D. | Bulgarian Air Force | 2 | 652 Jato; POW 5/Oct/1944, died 5/Oct/1944; claimed 2 individual destroyed, 1 damaged for 8 points | |
Bonev | Ivan Nenov | Bulgarian Air Force | 3 | 682 Jato; KIA 11/Jun/1944; claimed 3 individual destroyed and 2 damaged for 9 points | |
Damev | Boris Velyanov | Bulgarian Air Force | 0 | 1 | 672 Jato; claimed 1 shared destroyed and 3 damaged for 7 points |
Georgiev | Mikhail Grigorov | Bulgarian Air Force | 1 | 672 Jato; claimed 1 individual destroyed and 2 damaged for 5 points | |
Ivanov | Gencho Dimitrov | Bulgarian Air Force | 3 | 692 Jato; claimed 3 individual destroyed and 2 damaged for 7 points | |
Kostakiev | Khristo Vasiliev | Bulgarian Air Force | 2 | 3/6 Orlyak; claimed 2 individual destroyed for 6 points | |
Petkovski | Alexandr A. | Bulgarian Air Force | 0 | 3/6 Orlyak; claimed 4 damaged for 6 points | |
Petrov | Petr Kirov | Bulgarian Air Force | 2 | 2/6 Orlyak; claimed 2 individual destroyed and 2 damaged for 8 points | |
Stoyanov | Stoyan Iliev | Bulgarian Air Force | 4 | 1 | 682 Jato; claimed 4 individual destroyed, 1 shared destroyed and 4 damaged for 15 points |
Tonchev | Yevgeni G. | Bulgarian Air Force | 1 | 682 Jato; claimed 1 individual destroyed and 1 damaged for 5 points | |
Toplodolski | Chudomir M. | Bulgarian Air Force | 3 | 1 | 3/6 Orlyak; claimed 3 individual destroyed, 1 shared destroyed and 2 damaged for 8 points |
Tsvetkov | Marin Angelov | Bulgarian Air Force | 3 | 1 | 672 Jato; KIA 9/Sep/1944; claimed 1 individual destroyed, 1 shared destroyed and 5 damaged for 10 points |
Zagorski | Tsvetko Markov | Bulgarian Air Force | 1 | 3/6 Orlyak; KIA 24/Jun/1944; claimed 1 individual destroyed and 1 damaged for 5 points |