Ramba uchinyora ndima iyi - Nepo chikamu chikuru cheLuftwaffe chakanga chakabatikana nehondo yepasi, III./KG 26 yakatsvaka kuputsa kutaurirana kwegungwa kweSoviet. Vakanyudza ngarava inotakura mafuta "Mikhail Gromov", asi mutungamiri wengarava "Tashkent", muparadzi "Bezuprechnyy", uye kutakura "Abkhaziya" vakapukunyuka kuti vauye nevarwi 2,785 munhare. Rutsigiro rwemhepo rwakapfuurira nemakumi matanhatu nematatu emamishinari musi wa3 Chikumi, mazana mashanu nemakumi mashanu neshanu musi wa4 Chikumi, uye mazana mashanu nemakumi mashanu neshanu musi wa5 Chikumi, nevashandi veGerman vaibhururuka avhareji yezuva nezuva yemamishinari gumi nemasere. Pakatanga kurwiswa kwepasi musi wa7 Chikumi, Luftwaffe yakanga yabhururuka 3,069 sorties uye 2,264 matani epamusoro anoputika uye 23,800 mabhomba anopisa akadonhedzwa. Mabhomba mazhinji akadonhedzwa akanga ari mabhomba SC 1000, SC 1400 uye SC 2500 emakirogiramu 1.000. Zvombo zvine mabara anorema zvainangidzirwa pazvimbudzi zveSoviet zvebhitumini. Ivan Laskin, aitungamirira 172nd Rifle Division murutivi rwokuchamhembe akayeuka, kuti, "Vaputi vemabhomba mumapoka evanhu makumi maviri kusvika kumakumi matatu vakatirwisa vasingarangariri vavariro dzavo. Vakapinda, mafungu pashure pemafungu, uye chaizvoizvo vakachera pasi munharaunda yedu yose yokudzivirira. Ndege dzeGermany dzakanga dziri mudenga pamusoro penzvimbo dzedu zuva rose. Denga rakanga rakasvibiswa noutsi hwokuputika kwezviuru zvamabhomba nemagora. Gore guru rakasvibira rakanga rakazara utsi neguruva rakaramba richikwira richipfuura uye rakazopedzisira rafukidza zuva". Hondo yemhepo yeGermany yokurwisa Sevastopol muna June 1942 yakapfuura nokure kubhomba kweGermany kweWarsaw
, Rotterdam kana kuti London. Kubvira musi wa3 kusvika musi wa6 June, Luftwaffe yakaita mabasa 2.355 ikadonhedza matani 1.800 ezvinoputika zvine simba.