IL-2 Sturmovik

 

Soviet Il-2 Sturmovik (attack aircraft) from 4th Air Army (commander Colonel-General K. A. Vershinin) of the Red Army Air Force in the sky during the Battle of Berlin. The Eastern Front of the Second World War in Europe.

The IL-2 Sturmovik is the Soviet attack aircraft of the Great Patriotic War, created in OKB-240 under the leadership of Sergei Vladimirovich Ilyushin. The most massive combat aircraft in World history, more than 36 thousand of Il-2 aircraft were produced in USSR.

 

 

Photography Location: Berlin, Germany
Time taken: 1945
Author: Mark Red’kin

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