Soviet pilots posing next to La-5F fighter aircraft of the Red Army Air Force during the Great Patriotic War (1941 – 1945). The Eastern Front of the Second World War in Europe.
La-5F is a single-engined fighter, designed by OKB-21 under the leadership of engineer S. A. Lavochkin in 1942 in the city of Gorky. The La 5F aircraft was a single-seat monoplane solid wood design with retractable landing gear and an enclosed cockpit. The original name is “LaGG-5“.