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Tribute to Savelii Vasil'evich Nosov by Ivan Berryman. Depicted in early 1945 in his Yak-3 of the 4 IAK special hunter squadron, Lt Savelii Vasil'evich Nosov's aircraft has the blood red rose of this unit. Awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union, he had scored 16 victories in nearly 150 missions by the end of World War Two. |
Captain Ivan Smirnov by Ivan Berryman. After service in the 96th Infantry Regiment, Smirnov joined the XIX Corps Air Squadron in 1914, shooting down twelve enemy aircraft in the course of two years. When revolution swept through Russia in November 1917, he escaped the Bolsheviks via a White counter-revolutionary route, eventually joining the RAF in England, serving at the Central Flying School at Upavon. He is shown here in his silver Nieuport 17, having just despatched a Roland C.II. |
Tribute to Snr Lt Ivan Vasil'evich Maslov by Ivan Berryman. Flying more than 300 missions, Ivan Maslov scored over 20 solo victories and shared in a similar number. He is depicted here in his Yak-3 of 157 IAP late in the war - the aircraft sports in Russian the inscription 'Red October Collective Farm', the funding source to build this aircraft. Maslov was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union in 1944 and died aged 90 in 2011. |
Tribute to Ivan Kozhedub by Ivan Berryman. Considered the highest scoring Soviet and Allied Ace of World War Two, Ivan Kozhedub is credited with more than 60 victories in less than two years from July 1943 to April 1945. Seen here late in the war flying his Lavochkin La-7, he is also notably the first Soviet pilot to claim an Me262 jet. Awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union three times, he stayed with military aviation and served in the Korean War. He died in 1991, aged 71. |
Sikorski Ilya Muromets by Ivan Berryman. Designed in 1913 and constructed by the Russo-Baltic Carriage Factory in Riga, the Ilya Muromets was designed by the great Igor Sikorski, based on his earlier creation, the Bolshoi Baltiski. Conceived originally as a luxury passenger aircraft, it was to become the worlds first four-engined strategic bomber at the outbreak of World War 1 and featured a fully enclosed cabin for the pilots and internal bomb racks that could carry up to 800kg of bombs. 73 examples of this extremely successful aircraft were built and only one was lost due to enemy action during the 400 sorties flown, during which their bombing accuracy was claimed to have achieved a commendable 90 percent success rate. |
Albatros W.4 by Ivan Berryman. In response to a requirement for a seaplane fighter scout, Albatros developed the elegant W.4, a direct descendent of their successful D.1, incorporating many common parts with its land-based relative. About 120 of the type were constructed, many employed in the defence of important naval bases scattered along the coast of the North Sea. A small number of W.4s however fell into the hands of the Soviet Red Army in 1918 and were pressed into service on the Black Sea, based at Sevastopol, as depicted here. |
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