Nice photo - you can see how robust and damage resistant even the wooden part of the I-16 structure was. In general, ~40% of the I-16 wing had metal skin covered with canvas. This airplane is considered by many to be a "wooden plane", which is little true.
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Actually the three first pics above show the mix of the Lavochkin fighters of the 1st Czechoslovak Mixed Air Division, 1945. For instance .. in the first pic ( going from the right ) the "89" also seen in the second image, is the La-5FN then the "93" and "11" are the La-7 and then the "48, 95, 78" are the La-5FN.
The last image in the post shows the La-5. IMHO it is the La-5 "White 60" of General Major Yevgenii Yakovlevich Savitskii, commander of the 3rd IAK (Fighter Air Corp) on the Kuban front in May 1943.
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Another mystery. According to the book "Air Battle Over the Baltic 1941" by Mikhail Timin, the Baltic Military District in 1941 had no Pe-2s at all - not only in Mitava.
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