Ilyushin Il-2- Илью́шин Ил-2

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For sure ultimate ground attack plane from WW2  

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Few more

[Nico Braas]

Il-2 was also flown by Yugoslavian air force!

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Great image mate, thank you for sharing. Yes, we use it and I met and talk with few pilots flew on Stormovik

[Jicehem]

Hi,

Thank you for sharing these pictures.

Jicehem

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You are welcome

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Soviet spotter-reconaisance Il-2KR from the 151st independent correction and reconnaissance aviation regiment and its crew members at the airfield.

[modellius]

I want to build it eventually in 1/48 but still don't have a kit in my stash..... can't belive it....

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I built one few years ago...

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This aircraft fought in the Metallurg Zlatoust aviation squadron, built during the war on the personal savings of workers, engineering and technical workers and employees of the Zlatoust Metallurgical Plant-who collected an amount of 2.5 million rubles.

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Senior (from the regiment commander's plane) air gunner of the Soviet Il-2 attack aircraft, Petty Officer Pyotr Fedorovich Shulyakov (Петр Федорович Шуляков)(born in 1922) from the 948th Assault Aviation Regiment (308th Assault Aviation Division of the 3rd Assault Aviation Corps). In the foreground is a 12.7-mm UBT machine gun (universal Berezina turret).

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Aviation mechanic of the 6th Guards Assault Aviation Regiment, technician-Lieutenant Anatoly Fedorovich Losev (born in 1920) near the Il-2 attack aircraft. Kalinin Front.