Best crew of the 617-th Attack Aviation Regiment the Lieutenant V. T. Aleksuhin and gunner A. D. Gamayunov in his name IL-2 Alexander Suvorov attack aircraft of the Red Army Air Force. Kharkiv direction, in August 1943. The Eastern Front of the Second World War in Europe.
December 15, 1943 when the next combat mission the aircraft of lieutenant Aleksuhin and IL-2 Alexander Suvorov was hit. The pilot turned his burning plane on the concentration of enemy tanks and rammed them. February 4, 1944 Vasiliy Timofeevich Aleksuhin was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.
Location: USSR
Time when the photo was taken: August 1943
Author: Samarium Gurarii