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I recall reading an excerpt from the viewpoint of Alexander Pokryshkin (my favorite fighter pilot) in Attack of the Airacobras.
He discussed how on the eve of the Battle of Kursk, he was pulling a fighter sweep and saw a battery of these things going off.
> The smoke, dust, and fire, even from the air, looked staggering. It began to look as if an enormous explosion overtook our men. I switched frequencies and radioed any ground troops nearby...not knowing what was happening. After a forward observer enlightened me on the situation, I thought to myself, "Glad I'm not on the ground to hear that racket. But I'm sure as hell glad I'm not some poor bastard on the receiving end of it all."
Summarizing what Alexander Pokryshkin said about the P-39:
Some may argue those points but I'm just saying what Pokryshkin said. He had some ground breaking tactics implemented into the VVS with the arrival of P-39s. Tactics that led to turning around the air war and that is not an exaggeration.
Great book to read about it and how the P-39 was implemented in such a different way than the contemporary Soviet aircraft.