Soviet pilots from the 13th Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Red Army Air Force, squadron commander Captain Yakov Murashkin and Lieutenant Boris Komarov next to the La-5 fighter plane.
During the war, Yakov Andreevich Murashkin made 230 sorties, in 40 air battles he shot down 18 enemy aircraft. On February 23, 1945, he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
Boris Ivanovich Komarov joined the 13th Fighter Aviation Regiment in the spring of 1943. In May 1944 he died in a plane crash.
Location: USSR
Photo time: 1943