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A flight instructor gives his final instructions to a cadet before a training flight. In the cockpit of an I-16 fighter is cadet A. Nasledukhov. 1939.

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Servicemen of the 820th Assault Aviation Regiment of the 292nd Assault Aviation Division of the 1st Assault Aviation Corps near an Il-2 attack aircraft. On the left is squadron adjutant Senior Lieutenant Aleksey Timofeevich Ryzhkov (born 1910).

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Technical personnel of the 820th Kyiv Assault Aviation Regiment at an Il-2 attack aircraft. May 1943.

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Technical staff of the 820th Assault Aviation Regiment studying the 23-mm VYa-23 cannon of the Il-2 attack aircraft. 1943.

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Pilot of the 848th Fighter Aviation Regiment of the 194th Fighter Aviation Division of the 17th Air Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front Mikhail Pavlovich Golikov (1922 - 27.12.1944, left) with his fellow soldiers near a La-5F fighter at the Yambol airfield. October 1944.

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Pilot of the 848th Fighter Aviation Regiment of the 194th Fighter Aviation Division of the 17th Air Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front Mikhail Pavlovich Golikov (1922 - 27.12.1944) with a La-5F fighter at the Yambol airfield. October 1944.

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A smoke break for pilots of the 848th Fighter Aviation Regiment, 194th Fighter Aviation Division, 17th Air Army, 4th Ukrainian Front, near a La-5F fighter at the Yambol airfield in Bulgaria. On the right is flight commander Junior Lieutenant Boris Petrovich Lazarev (born 1923).

Lazarev's flight had 6 group victories to its credit. On 4 February 1945, Lazarev did not return from his 13th combat sortie and was removed from the Red Army lists as missing in action by order of the Main Directorate of the People's Commissariat of Defense on 12 July 1945.

It was later discovered that while carrying out a combat mission over Hungarian territory, he was seriously wounded by enemy anti-aircraft artillery fire and his leg was amputated. On 6 November 1947, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star.

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French pilot of the Normandie-Niemen regiment, Lieutenant Roger Marquis, in the cockpit of his Yak-3 fighter. By the end of the war, Marquis had shot down 13 German aircraft

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French pilot from the Normandie-Niemen regiment and Soviet technicians prepare a Yak-3 fighter for takeoff. The pilot in the photo is Lieutenant Roger Marquis. 1945

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Yak-3 fighter No. 24 of Junior Lieutenant Jacques Andre of the Normandie-Niemen regiment in flight. The amateur photos were taken by Andre's friend, Junior Lieutenant Roger Sauvage, from Yak-3 aircraft No. 32.

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A Soviet Yak-3 fighter aircraft of the Normandie-Niemen regiment prepares for a flight to France. An airfield in the suburbs of Stuttgart, June 1945. 20.06.1945

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A Soviet Yak-3 fighter aircraft of the Normandie-Niemen regiment prepares for a flight to France. An airfield in the suburbs of Stuttgart, June 1945. 20.06.1945

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A Yak-3 fighter aircraft of the Normandie-Niemen regiment before a flight to France. An American technician inspects the aircraft's cockpit. An airfield in the suburbs of Stuttgart, June 1945.

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The Yak-3 fighter aircraft of the Normandie-Niemen regiment is already in France (the Soviet identification marks on the aircraft have been painted over). 1945.

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The Yak-3 fighter plane of the Normandie-Niemen regiment is already in France (the Soviet identification marks on the plane have been painted over, but a star still shows through the paint, to the right of number 38). 1945.

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Yak-3 fighters of the 1st separate air regiment of fighting France "Normandie-Niemen" at the Wittenberg airfield. Machine number 5 is the fighter of junior lieutenant Roger Sauvage. 1945

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French pilot from the Normandie-Niemen regiment and Soviet technicians prepare a Yak-3 fighter for takeoff. The pilot in the photo is Lieutenant Roger Marquis. 1945.

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