The opening day of the campaign resulted in the loss of seven aircraft. III "Gruppe" attacked airfields at Łuck and Mlynow, near Dubno. The next day an 8./KG 55 Heinkel was shot down by flak over Łuck, the crew bailed out but were later found by advancing German forces to have been shot in the head. Two of the men were found at the local Commissar's house. II "Gruppe" attacked airfields in L'vov, Adamy, near Busk, Ukraine, and Zalosy. III./KG 55 bombed airfields in Dubno and Kiev that morning. The "Luftwaffe" established a degree of air superiority after destroying and capturing over 4,000 Soviet aircraft in the first weeks of the invasion. II./KG 55 attacked airfield near Kiev again on 25 June while III "Gruppe" bombed Red Army troop concentrations in Wlodzimierzec-Lutsk area on 23 June followed by bombing attacks on the Kowel-Sarny rail system on 25 June. By 25 June "Fliegerkorps" V bombed 77 airfields in the first three days, in 1,600 sorties. The air corps claimed 774 Soviet aircraft on the ground. Army reconnaissance units and the air corps lost 55 aircraft destroyed and 37 damaged.