By Massimo Tessitori |
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This image of late 1941 shows LaGG-3n.22 of 44 IAP, Leningrad area.
The aircraft is under a camouflaged net, whose shadows are projected ont the tail. |
This aircraft looks to be of series 1 or 2, whose characteristics are:
pointed side plates behind the exhaust stacks; |
The characteristic striped camouflage, differing little from aircraft
to aircraft, was drawn on the base of photos of n.22 and 14, and with the
help of "Soviet Air Force Fighter Colours 1941-1945"; here it is said to
have been applied at Zavod 153 of Novosibirsk.
The colours, as usual, are AII green and black, with AII blue undersurfaces. Other painting characteristics are:
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