red 59 of 3rd GvIAP
By Massimo Tessitori
File updated on September 23, 2004
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image from Red Stars n.1

These images represents a LaGG-3 of the 3 Gv.IAP of Red Banner Baltic Fleet during the winter of 1942/43, east of Lake Ladoga.
It was flown by Capt. Igor Alexandrovich Kaberov, that was already a flight instructor before the war outbreak. At the date of the photo, he was deputy commander of an eskadrilya. He was awarded the Golden Star on July 24, 1943, after 8 personal and 18 shared victories. He remained in the service until 1960. He wrote a book about his wartime service, V pritsele svastika (Swastika in the gunsight).
The aircraft was probably of 35th series of 1942, and its characteristics are:

This aircraft is characterized by:
  •  MK-7 white distemper over a  temperate scheme;
  • a typical 1942 camo scheme was hypothized, with AMT-4 green, AMT-6 black and AMT-7 light blue; 
  • red stars on 6 positions;
  • red 59 painted on the sides, perhaps repainted over a previous white 30; the camo color is well visible along the number's profile;
  • probably black prop blades.

 
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