Damaged during the emergency landing “on the belly” the Soviet Ilyushin IL 2 Sturmovik assault aircraft from the Red Army Air Force during the Great Patriotic War of the Russian Nation.
The accident of the Ilyushin Il 2 Sturmovik occurred over the territory, which is controlled by German troops and the aircraft was captured by the Nazi soldiers of the Wehrmacht the Armed Force of the Third Reich.
Il 2 is a Soviet attack aircraft from the Second World War, created at OKB-240 under the leadership of aircraft designer Sergei Ilyushin. The most massive combat aircraft in the history of aviation, more than 36 thousand were produced.
The Eastern Front of the World War II in the Soviet Union.