[烛光生存狂]-(加油啊兄弟！）我们保卫你，索非亚（开工咯）

As son of the late general (ret.) Stoyan Stoyanov, who is known today as the Bulgarian fighter pilot ace No 1 in the WWII, with 15 air victories, I would like to write to you some story about his life.

As an ally of Germany in the WWII, Bulgaria (very unfortunately) was obliged to fight against the other side's air-forces: --the US-British bombers(B-17, B-24) and fighter planes flying over our country to Rumania to bomb the fuel factories in Ploest and than again over our territory back to Italy. During 1943-44 there were many air battles in our sky with this enemy who outnumbered our airforces 10 to 20 times. Almost half of all Bulgarian fighter pilots, defending our towns from bombing lost their lives in this uneven fight.

My father, was trained in Germany for flying on a "Messerschmidt- 109 " plane. During that training he surprised the German trainers with his skill to fly on this new type fighter plane. He has had a great luck and survived the terrible air war over Sofia and also became the top scoring fighter pilot. Later in September, December of 1944, when our country and army joined politically the Allies, he and other Bulgarian fighter pilots fought over Macedonia, Serbia and Kosovo against the German ground forces which were withdrawing back to Berlin however with fierce resistance. Some more brave pilots lost their lives in that battles.

Being a hero in 1943-44 my father remained in the Air Force of PR Bulgaria for a couple of years but he was not trusted by the new authorities and later totally ignored by them. It couldn't be else for a "Royal officer who even had the German Iron Crest! He was fired from the airforce when the Hungarian Uprising in 1956 took place and scared all communist regimes in East Europe. After his firing, he had worked for a small salary for more than 30 years and mostly in the Monastery-of Rila-national museum, far and deep in the Rila mountains, while his family lived in Sofia. His work there was to be a guide for visitors of the monastery's museum, sometimes foreigners too. Among the visitors occasionally were some WWII air-force veterans, who came just as tourists to see this beautiful site. When some of them met with him there and heard from him that he is also a veteran like them and even an ace of the WW2, they were usually very much surprised. This way he met with some famous pilots too: Franz J. Strauss - the Bavarian Politician, A. Pokrishkin - the top Soviet fighter pilot, V. Tereshkova - the Russ. astrounavt and some others. I remember also well a case when an Austrian tourist a journalist after making friendly talk with my father has later (back in Austria) published an critical article in a popular Austrian newspaper about the Bulgarian " war hero - he met living "as a monk "in a monastery. My father was of course called by our State Security agents and asked to give his explanations about the article, used as "anticommunist propaganda by the west". Now I could feel only pity imagining my father ,being interrogated by this terrifying office. It was just after communist regime finished in Bulgaria in 1989 when my father was mentioned in some newspapers as the ace No 1 of the Bulgarian air force in WWII. He was raised to the rank ret. General-mayor by the first non-communist government in 1992. Some years later he passed away quietly. He left to the history a book (WE DEFENDED YOU, SOFIA) where he describes air battles in 1943-44, written by him during the communist regime and published with a lot of censoring cuts. At that time of course the communist Government did not wanted to mention to public any war heroes who served in the Bulgarian Royal army or fought for the enemies of Soviet Russia. So heroes like D. Spissarevsky (the Bulgarian LIVE TORPEDO ), who destroyed two "flying fortresses" crashing intentional with one of them and died in the sky over Sofia -were only scarcely mentioned in the book. Following you may read a small part from the book about fighting the "flying fortresses". Please excuse my translation, which is not a very skilled one.

他成为保加利亚在二战中的头号战斗机飞行员，获得了15次空战胜利。作为德国盟友，在二战中保加利亚非常不幸地被迫参与作战: --美国的B-17，B-24轰炸机和护航战斗机飞越保加利亚到罗马尼亚去轰炸在普罗耶什蒂的炼油厂，然后再飞越保加利亚回到意大利。在 1943-44 其间有许多空战发生在保加利亚的天空，在同数量上超过保加利亚空军10到20倍的敌人作战中。几乎一半的保加利亚战斗机飞行员，在这次实力悬殊的战斗中丧生。

斯托扬·斯托扬诺夫在德国接受在Me- 109飞机的飞行训练。在那训练期间德国教练员对他操纵这架新型战斗机的技术感到惊奇。他的运气使他在可怕的空战生存到结束战争结束，并且成为保加利亚的头号空战王牌。以后在1944年9月-12月，当保加利亚加入盟国一方，他和其它保加利亚战斗机飞行员同从马其顿、塞尔维亚和科索沃撤回柏林的德国地面部队作战。很多勇敢的飞行员丧生。

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Somewhere up in the sky not far from Sofia (Bulgaria's capital city), I saw a group of big planes moving in the air like big fat birds, their flight direction - was the southwest. It was clear that they were returning to the base they came from, after completion of their mission. I thought: "OK, let them have a nice way back. But what if they carry some unused load and meeting no resistance here, they choose to turn their flight to the south, where Sofia city lays and to get rid of their loads?" All these questions have rapidly stroke my mind and have push away my current decision to stay in a secure watch position." Who will later forgive me for this my passive hanging in the air over the returning enemy planes and wasting some fatal seconds?" So my decision came at once and firmly: " I will immediately go in an direct attack."

我看见一坨大飞机像大胖鸟一样索非亚上空的某处飞行，航向西北。很显然，她们完成了任务正在RTB。我想“好吧，让她们好好回家。但是一旦她们没有投弹，并且看起来没有反抗力，她们回到了向西的航线，那是索非亚的方向，她们是不是去轰炸索非亚呢？”所有的问题飞快的闪过我的脑海，并且驱使我离开现在的位置到远处的一个安全位置进行监视。“谁不会饶恕我为了几架回航的敌机而绕航所多花重要的几秒钟呢？”我立刻坚定了我的决定（我的决定变得迅速而坚决）：“我立刻进入并直接攻击”。

I moved towards the tail of the group, deciding to start an attack from the backside to one of the rear planes from the last squadron. The distance between us has rapidly decreased. By design our Messerschmidt-109 planes' speed was better and overcome that of enemy bombers with approximately 150 mph. In this moment however I had the feeling that time is passing too slow so my nerves were tensioned up to their maximum.

我飞向敌机群的尾部，决定从最后一个中队的一架敌机背后发动攻击。我们之间的距离迅速的减少。Me-109的速度比敌轰炸机快大约150英里/小时。但此时我从未感觉到时间是过得如此的慢，我鼓起了最大的勇气。

"Now is the time to prepare myself for firing my guns." I set more convenient behind the aiming point and started to choose my shot target.

“好吧，现在轮到我准备射的时候了。”我在飞到了更容易射得瞄准点之后并开始选择我的靶子。

In this moment however I sow with surprise that contrary to our preliminary information, the big planes in front of me were not the 2 engine bombers as we knew till now but they were with 4 engines and divided tails. Undoubtedly I was facing the "Consolidated Liberator" B-24 bombers, known also as "Flying Fortresses".

此时，我对面前的一切感到非常的惊讶（正在此时，我对我们得到和最初相反的情报感的哦非常的吃惊），那些在我前面的大飞机不是我们以前所见到的双发轰炸机，她们有4个发动机和双垂尾。勿庸置疑的，我面对的是B-24“解放者”，和已知的飞行堡垒一样。（

Obviously their crews have also noticed our planes and started to move the bombers in such way that they could diminish the distance between themselves, taking a" multi - floor" position .So they could easily observe and shoot on us. In a

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