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![Petlyakov Pe-2R Peshka [NATOÂ BUCK]](https://weaponsandwarfare.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Petlyakov-Pe-2R-Peshka-NATO-BUCK-584x410.jpg "Petlyakov Pe-2R Peshka [NATOÂ BUCK] 2")
Petlyakov Pe-2R Peshka [NATOÂ BUCK]
Pe-2R of 47th GvRAP, Red Army Supreme Command, October 1944. A dedicated reconnaissance version of the Pe-2, `red 4′ served with the third squadron of 47th GvRAP. The aircraft bears the name `Borisovskiy’ (the regiment was honoured with this name for participation in the liberation of Borisov, after which it also received its Guards title), a Guards emblem and the…
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Galland and the Squadron of Experts II
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Soviet Pursuit of the Superfortress
During the Second World War, Soviet Premier Josef Stalin had asked America for Boeing B-29 Superfortresses through lend-lease but was rebuffed as the United States had correctly surmised that the allied status of the two countries might not survive the war and did not want to deliver the Americans’ most…
Jules Verne to Berlin
Roy Grinnell’s dramatic painting of the first raid on Berlin by a Farman bomber, “Jules Verne.” When they ran out of bombs the bombardier threw down his shoes, so the story goes! Only three of the NC 223.4 variant were built and were initially designated as mail planes and sold…
Dornier Do 17/Do 215
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The WWI Air War over the Sea I
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GTD-21B SENIOR BOWL Photo-recon Drone
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