World War 2 Photos: Soviet Yak-1B fighter aircraft of the Red Army Air Force in winter camouflage. The Eastern Front.
On board the Yak-1B aircraft there is a gift inscription: To the pilot of the Stalingrad Front of the Guards Major Comrade Eremin from the collective farmer of the Stakhanovets collective farm. Comrade Holovaty.
On this Yak-1B aircraft, Hero of the Soviet Union Boris Nikolayevich Eremin (1913-2005), who during the war made 342 sorties, carried out over 100 assault positions of the enemy, participated in 70 air battles, shot down 23 German aircraft (8 personally, 15 in a group).
Source of information about the photo:
1. The newspaper Volzhskaya Kommuna No. 22 (7199) of January 28, 1943
Date of the photo: January 1943
Photo Author: Leonid Leonidov