Over Fields of Fire: Flying the Sturmovik in Action on the Eastern Front 1942-45 - читать бесплатно онлайн полную версию книги автора Anna Aleksandrovna Timofeeva-Egorova (Photographs) #39

Photographs

^{Technical school, early 1930s — Anna is standing second from the right, rear row.}

^{Anna as a cadet at a flying school.}

^{Anna as a mechanic repairing pneumatic hammers and drills during the construction of the Moscow Metro, 1937.}

^{Anna in the cockpit of a Po-2.}

^{Glider school cadets — Anna is seated front left.}

^{Anna receiving final instructions before a Po-2 flight.}

^{Alexei Cherkasov, navigator in the 130th detached Aviation Signals Squadron.}

^{Anna receiving orders alongside her Po-2.}

^{Early single-seat Il-2s in flight.}

^{German anti-tank guns viewed from the cockpit of an Il-2.}

^{Pilot Vasili Baliabin, 805th Ground Attack Aviation Regiment (805 ShAP), killed in action 1942.}

^{Squadron commander Vasily Rulkov, 805 ShAP, killed in action 1942.}

^{Pilot Viktor Khukharev, 805 ShAP, killed in action 1942.}

^{Il-2s taking off, 1943.}

^{A destroyed Il-2, with the body of one of its crew lying on the wing.}

^{Boris Strakhov, commander of the 1st Squadron in the 805th Ground Attack Aviation Regiment, killed in action in 1943.}

^{Anna, summer 1943.}

^{A member of Anna’s 197th Ground Attack Division receives an award.}

^{Anna’s Il-2 mechanic Mikhail Korzhenko.}

^{Pilots and heroes from the 805th Ground Attack Aviation Regiment — Victor Khoukhlin, Victor Gourkin and Andrey Konyakhin (left to right). Konyakhin daringly landed his Il-2 and rescued Khoukhlin and his rear gunner in the heat of battle.}

^{Pilots from 805 ShAP — I. Sherstobitov, V. Khomyakov, N. Ternovskiy.}

^{An enemy train burning after an Il-2 attack.}

^{Il-2s lined up on an airfield.}

^{A dramatic but blurred shot showing an enemy train under attack.}

^{An Il-2 undergoing maintenance.}

^{Some of Anna’s comrades from 805 ShAP photographed before embarking on a mission.}

^{Commanders of 805 ShAP, from left to right: Regimental navigator Petr Karev, Regimental commander Michael Nikolaevich Kozin, political deputy Dmitriy Polikarpovich Shvidkiy.}