Another one.
Plane White 10 was flown by A.I. Trukhov, commander of 103 ShAP.
On 22 March 1945, he guided a group of 6 planes into an attack in Danzig, but his plane was badly hit by an AA shell in the fuselage, wounding the crew. Trukhov managed to return to his airport and the wounded gunner left the plane with a parachute, then the fuselage broke completely during the landing.
The first photo seem to show a sharp white area under the fuselage, probably a recognition mark for the commander's plane that supplemented the white band brought on the rear fuselage (sides and below only) by all planes of 103 ShAP, as shown in the small photos below.
The photos allow to see that plane 10 was a straight-wing Il-2M with metal wing consoles, as typical of the production of Z.18 in late 1943.
The camouflage pattern was reconstructed on the base of these photos and of other Il-2s built by the same factory.
Images and informations via Vitaliy Timoshenko.
Regards
Massimo