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When did Graf claim his first aerial victory?

  • 4 August 1941

  • 2 August 1942

  • 3 August 1943

  • 1 August 1940

Answer

Graf claimed his first aerial victory on 4 August 1941, during the first days of Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union. He shot down a Soviet I-16 fighter in a dogfight over the skies of Lithuania. Over the next three months, he went on to claim 12 more victories, including a number of Soviet bombers.
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