Dear Pavel Andreevich: First, I congratulate you on the 70th anniversary of Victory Day! Seccond, I also congratulate you on the 100th anniversary…
It is an odd thing that the first Catalina of a country that produced Catalinas herself was a second hand Catalina: In 1937,…
Preparation for Force “Benedict” Sixty two years ago the might of Hitler’s Army’s invaded Russia and took on the might of Stalin’s army.…
Dear Readers, We present chapters from Valeriy Romanenko’s book Airacobras Enter Combat (Aerohobby, Kiev, 1993. ISBN 5-7707-5170-03). These chapters are prepared for publication…
The P-39D-2 in the Soviet VVS P-39D-2 Airacobras (Bell Model-14A) arrived in the USSR exclusively by the “southern” route, through Iran. Transport ships…
Although USA was still not at war with Germany, 11 March 1941 the American Congress adopted the so-called Lend-lease act which envisaged lending…
Photos by Ilya Grinberg
Photos by Ilya Grinberg
Photos by Yuri Pasholok
This is an interview with Grigoriy Tarkhanovich Avаnesov, who began the war on the Baltic Sea and ended it on the Black Sea…
This P39Q Airacobra was recovered from the Lake Mart-Yavr within the Russian Arctic Circle in the summer of 2004. (Read more…) Photographs were…