World War 2 photos: Red Army Air Force commander of the 5th Guards Mine-Torpedo Air Regiment the Soviet pilot Mikhail Besov posing against the background of Ilyushin Il-4T torpedo bomber at Gudauta airfield, Crimea, Soviet Russia. The Eastren Front.
In the cockpit Ilyushin Il-4 torpedo bomber the navigator Vasily Kravchenko.
DB-3F, from March 26, 1942 Il-4 (NATO designation: Bob) is a twin-engine long-range bomber of the Second World War, developed by OKB-240 under the leadership of the Russian Design engineer S. V. Ilyushin.
Location: Black Sea, Crimea, USSR
Time of shooting photos: 1943
Author: Evgeni Khaldei
Source of information about the Mikhail Besov photo:
1. iremember.ru