Air force

Crew of a bomber aircraft before taking off to combat mission Crew members of a bomber get ready to a combat flight, April 1945. Photo by Boris Myasnikov/TASS

Commander of a squadron of Red Army 154th fighter aviation regiment senior lieutenant Petr Pokryishev

Soviet dive bombers, 1944.

Fighter aircraft pilots Grigory Burenko, Victor Tabunov, Semen Lyavshenko and Nestor Linovitsky (from left to the right) on a military airfield

Soviet aircraft pilots Konstantin Mulyukin (L) and Pavel Plotnikov, Germany, April 1945.

A view of heavy bomber aircrafts at a military airport, 1942.

Sergey Lugansky, commander of a squadron of 270th fighter aviation regiment, twice awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union

Hero of the Soviet Union Musatov Ilya Ivanovich (in the middle)

Soviet armourer loads a bomb on a plane with the inscription "For father and mother" (Ukraine)

Pilots of the 161st Fighter Aviation Regiment of the 43rd Fighter Aviation Division of the Western Front at the I-16 fighter

The commanding staff of the 946 assault regiment of the 1st Air Army before the offensive of the 1st Belorussian Front in the operation to liberate Belarus. 1944 9th from the left - major, regiment commander, participant in the liberation of Brest VS Slyunkin The regiment for its participation in the liberation of the city of Brest was awarded the name "Brestsky".

Far left - Flight Technician First Lieutenant A. Vishnevsky

Сommander of the 47th Fighter Regiment, Major V. Goltsev after a combat mission

Flight personnel of the 2nd Squadron of the 47th Fighter Regiment. Manchuria

Pilots of the 3rd Squadron of the 47th Fighter Regiment. Manchuria