Just found this and it does not appear to have been reported on ww2aircraft
Russian 'Flying Tank' fighter plane is retrieved from the bottom of a lake 75 years after it was shot down during the Second World War
At what point could we say that the VVS made its recovery from the disaster of 1941? It seems to me that the shift to the Mediterranean and the Stalingrad disaster finally gave the VVS the breathing room to stage a recovery and start to become the juggernaut of 1944-45; without that I don't...