By Massimo Tessitori |
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This image shows Senior Lieutnant Georgii Dimitrievich Kostylev of 3 Guards
IAP of Red Banner Baltic fleet. The plane red 35 (or, less likely, red 75) was not his personal plane, that is known to be 'white 64' from http://airaces.narod.ru/all1/kostylv1.htm |
Very few is visible of this winter camouflaged LaGG-3, but the red number 35
(or, less likely, 75) seems to have the same font, size and position of those
seen on the planes of 44 IAP, including the lack of the fuselage star. It could
be a plane belonged to 44 IAP after having been repainted for the winter and
delivered to another unit from a maintenance facility; both units were in Leningrad
area. The resemblance could also be a mere coincidence.
Anyway this plane seems not the same 35 of of 44 IAP appearing on another photo:
its radio mast looks shorter.
This aircraft could be of series 1/3 whose characteristics are:
pointed side plates behind the exhaust stacks; |
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