Some commentaries to this pictures. All of them were drawn by me following photos and memoirs of pilots.
First - Yak -1 flown by Capt. Alexei Alelyuhin, 57 kills. 17 kills are regarded as group victories, but Alelyuhins co pilots said he gave those 17 to his wing men as gifts. Next - photo of Alelyuhin - spring 43.
Next - Bell P 39 Cobra of Fedor Shikunov. Summer 43. Order of Alexander Nevskiy on both doors. Total on tha moment - 25 kills.
Next - foto of Shikunov.
Next comes "yellow 2" P 39 Cobra of Nikolai Gulaev. September 1943. His personal badge - a falcon with a Fw 190 in claws. Gulaev finished war having 60 kills, three in group.
Next - "white 24" of Amet Han Sultan. La-7, spring 1944. He finished war with 49 kills, 19 - in group, or putting it bluntly - shared with wing man due to Russian tradition. In VVS RKKA every fifth kill was given to wingman or shared with him as a bonus. So, if a pilot had 20 kills it meant that he actually downed 24 planes, but four went to "brother in arms".
Next - photo of Amet Han.
Then - Nikolai Gulaev in his Cobra.
Next comes a study of Gulaev's Cobra nose - one of the final. First I noticed subtle cross beneath falcon and it took some time to make reconstruction.
And last - Red La-7 of Alexei Alelyuhin, March-April - May 45. There's an interesting story how this "white 14" became all red.
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