I would be grateful for your thoughts about the aircraft shown here and its possible color scheme. It is an Il-2 associated with pilots of 57 cbap (later 57 pshap and then 7 gv.pshap) of the VVS KBF:
http://www.soldat.ru/files/f/0000050e.jpgThe image was captioned:
пилоты 57 СБАП ВВС КБФ 1941 год, на заднем плане Ил-2 первых серий
pilots of the 57 CBAP KBF in 1941, in the background an Il-2 of the first series
The image was found as part of the description of the recovery if an Il-2 wreck and the remains of its pilot:
http://www.soldat.ru/files/3/22/31/45/118/133/http://sites.google.com/site/pilotsbaltic/letciki-baltijcy-sluzivsie-v-13-koiae/zukov-ivan-osi57 cbap sent pilots to factory № 18 at Voronezh in early July 1941 for type conversion training. From mid-July, they received 38 Il-2's which they operated in two squadrons in the Baltic/Leningrad area.
In the image, one might note ....
-- the leaves on the trees : if the photo was taken in the Leningrad area, this will likely be late May or later in the year
-- the mix of VVS KA and VVS BMF officers
-- the raglan (пальто-реглан) leather costs : flight clothing in the VVS KA at the start of the war, but more typically seen on submarine and perhaps small boat officers of the KBF
-- the black visored covers for the naval officers : these would be worn, in wartime, when daytime high temperatures were above 10? C, usually from May through September in the Leningrad area
Thank you, in advance, for your comments. Any other images or colors/marking information for Il-2's of 57 cbap would be also very much appreciated.