With over 36.000 produced during the course of the Great Patriotic War, the Il-2 represented the Red Army Air Force's principal strike force. Known to its pilots by the diminutive "Ilyusha", the aircraft played a crucial role on the Eastern Front. Stalin himself referring to the type as "as essential to the Red Army as air and bread".
Throughout illustrated with b/w pictures, 50 color profiles (2 of them are five-side-profiles) as well as 8 pages with b/w drawings in scale 1:72.
Author(s): Oleg Rastrenin
Publisher: Warpaint
Pages: 52
Language: English
Edition: 1
Year of publication: 2016
Dimensions: 29,7 x 21 cm
Binding: Softcover
Weight: 0.30 kg
