(as bombers)
with profiles of Tapani Tuomanen
in Long Range Aviation service
(as night fighters and intruders)
with profiles of Tapani Tuomanen
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Credits:
Tapani Tuomanen for drawings the profiles and collecting part of the images;
Daniele Righi for the massive assistance in collecting documents and for their automatic translations;
Aleksandrs Ruchkovskis, Dimitri Linevitch and Wladyslaw Arhipov for their assistance in collecting and commenting images.
Bibliography:
Red Stars 1, of Geust, Keskinen, Stenman, ed.Apali: good photos of all types in Soviet service, some for each type
Red stars 4, of Geust and Petrov, ed. Apali: good photos of all Lend-lease types; wide file of photos of Boston/A-20 in Soviet service.
Airwar 92 A-20 Boston/Havoc: Russian monograph that collects a considerable amount of material from other sources.
Bostony v Sovetskom Soyuze of Vladimir Kotelnikov: most important reference book about this type in Soviet service.
Squadron Signal in action 144 A-20 Havoc. Good monograph in English, particularly useful to see the differences between versions. Not much things on Soviet service.
Typy Broni n°108 - Samolot bombowy Boston (Havoc): Small old Polish monograph with some interesting details.
Profile 202 - Douglas A-20 (7A to Boston III) old monograph about the early versions, particularly in British service.
Camouflage and Markings 10 - Douglas Boston Havoc old monograph about the early versions, particularly in British service.
Squadrons! n.39- the Douglas Boston & Havoc: the intruders, of Phil H. Listemann: excellent monograph on early service in the RAF. Nothing on Soviet use.
Links:
http://ava.org.ru/index.htm reference site with photos of Soviet planes classified by unit. A-20s and B-3 appear on these pages:
http://www.joebaugher.com/usattack/a20.html reference historical site on A-20s, part of a monumental site on US planes and more.
https://vvsairwar.com/2018/01/09/the-douglas-a-20-havoc-boston-in-soviet-service/ history of Boston in Soviet service
http://www.forgottenprops.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/douglas_a20_havoc/douglas_a20_havoc.html page with serials and destinations of an extremely wide amount of A-20s
https://www.cybermodeler.com/aircraft/a-20/a-20_all.shtml page on A-20s with lots of details, walkarounds, kit reviews etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_A-20_Havoc page on Wikipedia
http://legendsintheirowntime.com/LiTOT/A20/A20_index.html page with links to technical images
https://paulbudzik.com/models/amt-a20-Havoc/amt-a20-havoc-build-pg2.html page with good details of the cockpit and defensive MG
https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/threads/1-48-a-20g-havoc.27750/ page on building an 1/48 model
https://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/detail.php?aircraft_id=186 historical introduction to the type
Red army air force radar fighters excellent article in Russian about Soviet fighters with radar
http://hist.rloc.ru/lobanov/3_02.htm excellent article in Russian about Soviet fighters with radar
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/albums/72157605269786717 : collection of good color photos of Commonwealth planes, included many British and S.A. Bostons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease about the lend-lease program
Page 2 of USSR optical devices about bomb sights
http://scalemodels.ru/modules/forum/viewtopic_t_8272.html page with many informations and a conversion of a model into a SovietNavy A-20G, in Russian
https://bellabs.ru/51/index.html archive of texts and images about 51 MTAB
https://bellabs.ru/51/Photos/_Equipment.html#Part02 Photo archive
https://zaika70.livejournal.com/2021/12/16/ Blog of historical photos with rare wartime images.
Disclaimer: this work collects a lot of photos and drawings from many sources,
not always identified and mentioned.
If someone has rights on the images reproduced here, please don't feel hurted,
email to me and I shall provide to remove or to credit them.