Hi
this one is a bit of light relief, but I unless your a 40 something Brit, you probably won't have run across this one.
there was a 1970's Britsh comic called Battle, and from 1977 to the mid 80s it ran. I read it back then, and it is of minor interest in that whilst being written at the height of the Cold War for British children it gave a sympathetic view of the Soviet people, [commisars are reviled] and their sacrifices in the GPW.
Johnny Red begins with the nineteen-year-old?s short temper causing him to strike a superior officer and be discharged from the RAF. Stealing a Hurricane from a merchant navy vessel off the coast of Murmansk, Redburn arrives in Russia and falls in with Falcon Squadron, a forgotten band of airmen waiting to die for the Motherland. Johnny helps the Falcons re-establish themselves as a fighting force as they take on the might of the German Luftwaffe, but he is now a wanted man, and fears that the Russian Commanders will discover his secret?
Don't get me wrong, it's certainly not high end literature, in fact a lot is downright preposterous and as silly as any comic..like the opposing sides talking on the radio during combat and the heroic Englishman..
but this and some Airfix models was the start of my interest in the VVS though...
there is a very good site dedicated to this,
http://www.falconsquadron.sevenpennynightmare.co.uk/but if you have some spare time there are scans of the entire comic strip up here by year.
http://www.falconsquadron.sevenpennynightmare.co.uk/?cat=3here's a panel...
cheers
T