He may well have meant the La5 but I may have misunderstood the German accent. I'm sure he said it was the radial engine of the Russian plane that made him think it was a FW (from distance) and had never seen one like that before. Another Bf109 pilot recounted how a group of Russian fighters bounced their flight and he tried every trick he knew to avoid being shot down but, whatever he did, he could not shake the Russian plane off, eventually it ran out of ammo and the reason he survived and the only survivor of that encounter.
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