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Russian Aircraft of World War II: 1939 - 1945. London: Amber Books Ltd. ISBN 978-1-83886-083-7.
In one dog fight on 16th July 1944, 18 Yak-3s faced 24 German fighters. As a result of the clash, the Soviets lost just one machine, while 15 enemy aircraft were shot down. The aircraft was...
Gentsis took some incredible shots of the inside of rare aircraft from the collection of the Central Museum of the Russian Air Force. Among Gentsis’ models were the famous Il-2, La-7, Pe-2,...
The Ilyushin Il-2 (Russian: Илью́шин Ил-2) is a ground-attack plane that was produced by the Soviet Union in large numbers during the Second World War. The word shturmovík ( Cyrillic : штурмовик), the generic Russian term for a ground-attack aircraft, became a synecdoche for the Il-2 in English sources, where it is commonly ...
"Pilots pleased over their victory during the Marshall Islands attack, grin across the tail of an F6F Hellcat on board the USS LEXINGTON, after shooting down 17 out of 20 Japanese planes heading for Tarawa." Comdr. Edward Steichen, November 1943. 80-G-470985.
29 Νοε 2016 · The photographer, Valery Faminsky, had worked for the Soviet Army and kept his negatives from Ukraine and Germany meticulously archived until his death in 2011. Mr. Bondar had seen many books and...
Shot from the ground and from the air, these powerful images show how Allied victory in the Second World War owed much to air power. Ian Carter, author of War in the Air and Senior Curator at IWM, says, “Colour photography was a rarity during the Second World War; film was scarcely available and images were expensive to print.
