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Great grandpa Russ Arthur, 85 and Royal Navy veteran, passes his poppy to Joseph, his great grandson, aged 4 and a half - lest we forget ♥
A photo I took two years ago during the same session I did my previous "Pass It On!" photos.
For my Dad, my brothers, my nephews, Great Grandpa Russ Arthur - and Capt Eric "Winkle" Brown RN - all of them my heroes.
Copyright © 2014 Martyn William
A photo from October 1983. I had been walking along Smolenskaya Naberezhnaya Street by the Moskva River and had just taken a photo of the British Embassy. That was a dodgy thing to do at the time: it was still the Communist USSR - and there were strict restrictions on what one could photograph.
I was putting my camera back in its bag when I heard a shout and saw a soldier beckoning me from a nearby truck. I was convinced I was going to end up in the infamous Lubyanka prison for flouting the rules! It was with some trepidation therefore that I approached. However, I needn't have worried. The soldier - the one with his hands on the tailgate in the shot - said in halting English: "You take our photo!". Whereupon he and his colleagues grinned for the camera and I clicked the shutter.
I've often wondered what became of them. Possibly sent to Afghanistan (the USSR invaded in 1979 and the war lasted until 1989 when the Soviets withdrew). If so, it is probable that many of them died there.
Note: the CA lettering on their uniforms stands for Soviet Army (Sovetskaya Armiya) - the Cyrillic CA is SA in the Latin alphabet. The MHФ letters on the tailgate translate to MNF. Multi National Force? That would make sense given the different ethnicities in the group.
"The Eagle stamps of the Western Army" - The original "eagle" stamps were created for a nominally Russian anti-bolshevik army in the Baltic, the West Russian Volunteer Army, often simply called the "Western Army" in stamp catalogues.
Z.A. - initials of "Zapadnaya Armiya," (Russian) Western Army, Latvia 1919.
Issued during the Russian Occupation of Latvia by Col. Avalov Bermondt for use by the Western Army. He issued other stamps that are listed in Scott's (#2N1 through -#2N36) and these are mentioned following them. Latvia gained its independence after these were printed, but before they were issued. Production was stopped, and the available stamps were sold to collectors. Some are perforated with full gum, some were not gummed and were cut imperforate with the paper being thick and cream colored.
Complete set of 8 stamps: Perf 11 (A) & Imperf (B)
5 Kopecks - brown to dark brown (Michel number - WA I A / I B)
10 Kopecks - greenish dark blue to blue (Michel number - WA II A / II B)
15 Kopecks - reddish orange (Michel number - WA III A / III B)
20 Kopecks - brown lilac to lilac (Michel number - WA IV A / IV B)
30 Kopecks - ochre (Michel number - WA V A / V B)
50 Kopecks - greenish light blue to light blue (Michel number - WA VI A / VI B)
60 Kopecks - yellowish green (Michel number - WA VII A / VII B)
75 Kopecks - dark gray green to black green (Michel number - WA VIII A / VIII B)
Postage validity: from July 1919 until November 1919
LINK to the 16 stamps - jenikirbyhistory.getarchive.net/topics/stamps+of+the+west...
There was a huge demand in the packet trade for these Western army eagle stamps so the stamps were reprinted over and over again with the print quality gradually getting worse. There are also at least three different types of forgeries - these were created to sell to collectors.
LINK to varieties - worldstampsproject.org/russia-civil-war-varieties-postage...
The un-overprinted ones are listed in Scott's under Latvia behind the occupation stamps. They were prepared in 1919 but never placed in use. They exist perf and inperf. Reprints and counterfeits exist. There are 8 values in the set. Scott's calls them stamps but does not assign them a number. According to this article stamps with that overprint are forgeries.
For a reference - The Postage Stamps of Russia: 1917-1923, Volume 3. The Armies & Post Offices, Parts 16-18 Russian Post Offices in the Levant and White Armies by Dr R. J. Ceresa (1990). He mentions different paper types, shades, reprints, varieties, postmarks, forgeries etc.
- thick, greyish carton paper and thinner white paper...
Dr Ceresa describes three main forgery types which he calls F1 to F3 and further separates F1 into various sub-types. He characterises his F1 forgery as following:
(a) The flag-like ornament near the "R" is rounded instead of pointed.
(b) The last letter of "Russkaya" has a rounded top instead of a flat top (most marked).
(c) There are small individual dots for the side chains.
(d) The value tablet has a straight top instead of a dimpled curve.
(e) The 2nd and 3rd leaves at the top are almost without shading.
(f) Unlike the genuine 5 kop. value, there are no white lines on either side of of the "5".
Forgery type 2 - (F2) - He describes it -
(a) An extra line around the inner shield on the eagle's chest.
(b) Sceptre is more prominent with more white and even outline.
(c) The bar to the right-hand acorn is smaller than on genuine.
(d) There is no horizontal bar to the cross of the crown.
(e) The ribbon from the crown is not shaded.
He describes his F3 forgery:
(a) The wreath around the central arms gives the impression that it is mounted on an inverted hot-water bottle.
(b) The right hand acorn does not have a horizontal bar as per the genuine stamps.
(c) The clean white sceptre, unbroken by shading but [not] so distinctive as Type F2.
(d) Leaf at top right joins the reversed "D" on that side.
The overprints were bogus and had various surcharges:
- "Edinstvo i / Svoboda / 50" on 15k imperf (as here)
- The same surcharge on 15k perf
- "Edinstvo i / Svoboda" on 15k imperf
- The same overprint on 15k perf
- "Edinstvo i / Svoboda" on 20k imperf
- The same overprint on 20k perf
This information is from Ceresa's handbook from 1990.
LINKS to where the above information was taken - thestampforum.boards.net/thread/3705/latvia-russian-occup... and - www.stampcommunity.org/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=57938
Excellent LINK showing examples of the forgeries - www.stampcommunity.org/topic.asp?topic_id=80384
(excellent article - explains everything) - LINKS to - Identifying the Genuine West Russian Army Stamps - Article by John R. Iacovino - www.efocc.org/Resources/Iacovino/ShowPage.php?A=AP_2011-0... and www.efocc.org/Resources/Iacovino/ShowPage.php?A=AP_2011-0... and - www.efocc.org/Resources/Iacovino/ShowPage.php?A=AP_2011-0...
More interesting LINKS -
www.stampcommunity.org/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=45231
www.stampcommunity.org/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=77627
www.stampcommunity.org/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=8086
LINK to - Listing Of Overprints On WWI Era German Stamps - www.stampcommunity.org/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=49216
Lviv trolleybus 383, Line 10, in:
вулиця Митрополита Ангеловича /
vulytsya Mytropolyta Anhelovycha.
The couple (and the trolleybus) are crossing:
вулиця Степана Бандери /
vulytsya Stepana Bandery.
Степан Андрійович Бандера /
Stepan Andriyovych Bandera, 1909-1959, was a nationalist leader who remains highly controversial today. Some people consider him a liberator who fought the Soviets and the Germans while trying to establish an independent Ukraine. Others consider him as a German collaborator and war criminal, partly responsible for the Holocaust in Ukraine.
The site of the:
Пам'ятник Степанові Бандері /
Pam'yatnyk Stepanovi Banderi
("Monument to Stepan Bandera") is at left (north), out of this image. The monument was built in 2007.
At this location,
вулиця Митрополита Ангеловича /
vulytsya Mytropolyta Anhelovycha, becomes:
вулиця Героїв УПА /
vulytsya Heroyiv UPA
("Heroes of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army Street").
on the "other" (southwest) side of:
вулиця Степана Бандери /
vulytsya Stepana Bandery.
The Українська повстанська армія, УПА /
Ukrayins'ka Povstans'ka Armiya, UPA,
was a guerilla group that fought against Poles, the Soviet Red Army, Soviet guerillas ("Partisans") and Germans during WWII. Among the anti-German resistance groups during WWII, UPA was unique in that it had virtually no foreign support. Its legacy today is controversial: some believe UPA was the most important anti-Communist resistance movement prior to the Afghan mujahedeen, while others believe that UPA was primarily a group of German collaborators and war criminals.
1995 July 28.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBn12qsNgnU
TheGermanItalianGuy2
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабоче-Крестьянская Красная Армия; РККА or Raboche-krest'yanskaya Krasnaya armiya; RKKA) began as Soviet Russia's revolutionary communist combat groups during the Russian Civil War of 1918--1922 and the Red Cossacks Army of the Ukrainian Republic, the official history of which begins from 22 December 1917. It grew into the national army of the Soviet Union. By the 1930s, the Red Army was among the largest and most powerful armies in military history. The color connotation of "Red Army" refers to the traditional color of the communist movement. On 25 February 1946, the Red Army was renamed the Soviet Army (Советская Армия, Sovetskaya Armiya).
The Red Army is widely credited with being the decisive land force in the Allied victory in the European Theatre of World War II. During operations on the Eastern Front, it engaged and defeated about 75%--80% of the German armies (Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS) deployed in the war. Рабоче-Крестьянская Красная Армия, Союза Советских Социалистических Республик. Цвет кадры Великая отечественная война.
Color footage of the Red Army in WWII, Armed Forces of the Soviet Union.
Армия Словении будет помогать полиции бороться с тысячами мигрантов, которые собираются прибыть на границу Хорватии в ближайшие дни, сообщил Премьер-министр Мирослав Церар.
Он анонсировал прибытие сотен мигрантов на границу Хорватии – через день после того, как Венгрия закрыла свою границу с...
2snews.ru/politics/armiya-slovenii-pomozhet-policii-10552/
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SOURCE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbzei7qXvsA
The full Yad Vashem video used to be at the URL below, but they soon replaced it with an edited version.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OftL05GLq8
While Russia’s ongoing assault on historical truth is no longer a surprise, it was amazing to witness the extent to which the fake history that Russian propagandists have invented was given a platform at the “World Holocaust Forum” that took place at Yad Vashem in Israel in January 2020, just ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. The forum, which was organised by Russian oligarch Viatcheslav “Moshe” Kantor (a Moscow-born fertiliser magnate and close ally of Vladimir Putin) in collaboration with Yad Vashem, and sponsored by Israel's president and foreign ministry, coincided with a hysterical barrage of disinformation and propaganda that Russia launched against Poland as the 75th anniversary of the allied victory over Nazi Germany was approaching.
stillunusual.tumblr.com/post/190432779246/the-kremlin-thi...
As well as allowing a despot like Putin to take the stage and spout a ton of hypocritical nonsense about “peace” and “tolerance”, the forum’s opening presentation showed a highly inaccurate map of Europe on the eve of the Second World War that included a fake border dividing Poland roughly into the areas assigned to Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in the secret protocol of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, which the two dictatorships signed on 23rd August 1939, prior to their mutual invasion of Poland.
Not only that, the map implied that Polish territory to the east of this fake border was a separate country called Belarus, which didn’t actually exist at the time. It’s true that the USSR did subsequently incorporate the northern part of eastern Poland into the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, but this only happened after the Nazi-Soviet invasion and occupation of Poland had taken place. The southern part of eastern Poland was simultaneously incorporated into the Ukraininan Soviet Socialist Republic, but I guess that inventing a fake pre-war Ukrainian state wouldn’t make sense to Russian propagandists, in view of contemporary Russia’s ongoing annexation of Ukrainian territory and its brutal campaign to destroy Ukrainian independence.
The presentation then showed Nazi Germany invading and taking over the parts of Europe that were in its “sphere of influence” according to the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, but failed to show that the Soviet Union was doing the same thing at the same time - invading and occupying not just eastern Poland but also Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, as well as parts of Finland and Romania (and committing war crimes against the people of those countries).
Pretending that these events never happened was a calculated insult to the victims of Soviet oppression that fits perfectly with Russia’s fake version of history in which the Second World War only started in 1941 (when the Soviet Union performed the great patriotic u-turn and joined the allies fighting against Germany, after being betrayed by their former allies the Nazis).
When the presentation moved on to the subsequent defeat of Nazi Germany, no distinction was made between the western allies liberating the countries of western Europe, and the Soviet Union adding the countries of eastern Europe to its empire, subjecting them to a decade of Stalinist terror and a total of nearly half a century trapped behind the Iron Curtain - wasted years that left them destitute in every sense of the word when they finally overthrew communist rule at the end of the 1980s.
In his keynote speech, Putin made the false claim that 40% of the Jews who died in the holocaust were Soviet Jews, which could only be true if territories invaded and occupied by the USSR as a result of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact were regarded as Soviet.
While accusing others of collaborating with the Nazis, he had nothing to say about the extensive collaboration between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union that lasted from August 1939 to June 1941.
He somehow forgot to mention the fact that the Nazis and Soviets held a joint military parade in Brest-Litovsk during their invasion of Poland in September 1939.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%e2%80%93Soviet_military_para...
He also avoided talking about the huge economic and military support that the USSR provided to their Nazi allies, which ironically also helped the Germans in their preparations to launch Operation Barbarossa in June 1941.
More details here....
Nazi–Soviet economic relations (1934–1941)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi%E2%80%93Soviet_economic_relations
The Nazi–Soviet Commercial Agreement (1939)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_Commercial_Ag...
The Nazi–Soviet Commercial Agreement (1940)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_Commercial_Ag...
The Nazi–Soviet Border and Commercial Agreement (1941)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%e2%80%93Soviet_Border_and_Co...
From 1939 to 1941, the friendship between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union was also promoted to the Soviet people in state propaganda - even that which was aimed at children.
www.tumblr.com/stillunusual/696491665705385984/pionerskay...
And as well as indoctrinating the citizens of the USSR with pro-Nazi and anti-western messaging, Stalin ordered communist parties throughout the world to stop all agitation against Hitler's regime and to follow suit.
But Putin forgot all about that too....
However, while listing some of the major atrocities committed by Nazi Germany, he made sure to single out “the burned-down village of Khatyn” - a crime that was brought to prominence as a propaganda tool during the Soviet era, as its name is so similar to Katyn (where the Soviet NKVD massacred thousands of Polish prisoners of war in 1940 and subsequently blamed the Germans). But Putin failed to mention that the Khatyn villagers were massacred by Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118 - an auxilliary police battalion of Soviet Nazi collaborators which mainly consisted of Ukrainians but also included Russians. While talking about Nazi “accomplices” in general, Putin picked on Lithuania and Ukraine, with not a single word about other Russian Nazi collaborators like the notorious Russkaya Osvoboditelnaya Narodnaya Armiya (also known as SS Sturmbrigade RONA).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaminski_Brigade
And the fact that hundreds of thousands of Soviet citizens had volunteered to fight on the German side during Operation Barbarossa also somehow slipped his mind (as much as 20% of Nazi Germany's military manpower during the invasion of the USSR consisted of Soviet citizens fighting against their own country, about half of whom were ethnic Russians).
Putin failed to mention the Russische Nationalarmee (AKA First Russian National Army) and the Russische Befreiungsarmee (AKA Russkaja Oswoboditel'naja Armija – Russian Liberation Army - ROA).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Russian_National_Army
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Liberation_Army
He also had nothing to say about the Trawnikimänner ("Trawniki men") - officially named SS-Wachmannschaften, but also known as Hiwis or Askaris - who were Nazi collaborators mainly recruited from Soviet POWs (including Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Belarusians, Estonians, Georgians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Russians, Tatars and Ukrainians) captured by the Germans during Operation Barbarossa. The Trawnikis took part in Operation Reinhard, the Nazi plan to exterminate the Jews of Poland, and were directly responsible for many massacres of Jewish and non-Jewish civilians. They also served as guards at German camps and participated in the suppression of the Warsaw ghetto uprising and the liquidation of other Jewish ghettos.
Putin even managed to forget how Soviet propaganda had hypocritically claimed that the Zionist movement was an ideological bedfellow of Nazi Germany and that Zionist leaders had collaborated with the Nazis.
Needless to say, he didn’t mention any of the USSR's numerous crimes against humanity, and most definitely didn't say anything about how the Soviet NKVD had collaborated with the German Gestapo in the suppression of Poland’s wartime resistance movement from 1939-41, or that they delivered to the Gestapo over 4000 Jews and German communists who had taken refuge in Soviet held territory, or how the Soviets had subsequently re-opened Nazi camps like Majdanek after the USSR re-occupied Poland in 1944-45, and used them imprison Polish resistance fighters and anyone else who they saw as a threat their takeover of the country.
The contrast between today's Germany (a modern democracy that's no longer a threat to its neighbours) and today's Russia (an authoritarian fascist dictatorship that still regularly invades other countries and poses an existential threat to all of its neighbours) also didn't get a mention at Yad Vashem....
The Polish president Andrzej Duda decided to boycott the forum, after being told that he would not be allowed to speak, because only the representatives of Russia, the USA, Britain, France, Germany and Israel would be given that privilege. I’m not a fan of Duda or the populist political party he represents, but given the amount of agenda-driven historical revisionism on display at the forum, his decision was clearly justified.
Poland was the country with by far the largest Jewish population at the start of Second World War. In fact - if we exclude the USSR - Poland’s pre-war Jewish population was larger than that of all the other countries in Europe put together (Great Britain, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Italy, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Albania, Greece and Turkey). Poland’s Jewish population was also considerably larger than that of the USSR despite the fact that Poland was a fraction of the USSR’s size.
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/map/european-jewish-pop...
Approximately 50% of the Jews who died in the holocaust were Polish Jews....
Poland was also the only country whose forces fought against Nazi Germany for the entire duration of the war in Europe - in stark contrast to the Soviet Union (which spent the first two years in bed with Hitler), the USA (which finally turned up two years late), Britain (which was a few months late) and France (which chickened out of helping Poland in 1939, then surrendered to Germany without much of a fight and formed a Nazi collaborationist regime that played a direct role in perpetrating the holocaust).
Poland made the fourth largest contribution to the allied cause, behind the USSR, USA and Britain. The Polish government-in-exile also informed the world about the holocaust as it was actually happening, based on evidence gathered by the Polish resistance, which included brave people like Natalia Zarembina, Jan Karski and Witold Pilecki.
For example, on 10th December 1942, the Polish government sent a diplomatic note, written and signed by Minister of Foreign Affairs Edward Raczyński, to the governments of the 26 signatory states of the United Nations Declaration. The nine-page note described what was known about the mass extermination of the Jewish people in German-occupied Poland. It was also a call to action that asked the signatory states to condemn and respond to the crimes the Germans were committing against the Jewish population.
The note clearly stated that more than a million Polish jews had already been killed, and that the Germans intended to kill the rest, as well as Jews from all over Europe. It also included a detailed account of Grossaktion Warschau - the deportation of most of the inhabitants of the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka extermination camp during the summer of 1942 (from 23rd July to 21st September), where they were killed in gas chambers disguised as showers.
www.flickr.com/photos/stillunusual/albums/72177720313303622
The Polish government was the first allied government to recognise that the Germans planned to completely exterminate the Jews of Europe - a view that was not shared by Britain or the USA (or most Jewish leaders in the west) when Raczyński's note was published.
Poland's exiled government also created and funded Żegota - an underground Polish resistance organisation affiliated with the Armia Krajowa (Home Army), which was dedicated to saving Jews from the holocaust. Poland was the only country in German-occupied Europe where such an organisation, run jointly by Jews and non-Jews, existed. Operatives of Żegota worked in extreme circumstances, under constant threat of death (Poland was also the only country in German-occupied Europe in which aiding Jews in any way was routinely punished by execution), but nevertheless they provided aid to tens of thousands of Jews.
After the war, instead of being recognised as heroes, Żegota's members faced another threat - persecution from Poland's puppet communist regime, which was installed by Stalin and sought to erase any vestiges of independent Polish resistance that could undermine Soviet control. Many who had fought against the Nazis were arrested, imprisoned and/or executed during the decade of Stalinist terror that followed the Second World War in Poland. Żegota was largely unrecognised for many years, overshadowed by post-war political struggles. Outside of Poland, the vast majority of people have still never heard of Żegota….
Poland's exiled government also included Jewish members. After the Germans liquidated the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, one of them, Szmul Zygielbojm, committed suicide in protest against the indifference and inaction of the western allies in the face of the holocaust. In a long suicide note, he said that...."I cannot continue to live and to be silent while the remnants of Polish Jewry, whose representative I am, are being murdered. My comrades in the Warsaw ghetto fell with arms in their hands in the last heroic battle. I was not permitted to fall like them, together with them, but I belong with them, in their mass grave. By my death, I wish to give expression to my most profound protest against the inaction with which the world watches and permits the destruction of the Jewish people"....
Poland's role in the defeat of Nazi Germany, and the unique and highly dangerous work carried out in the occupied country to resist the Germans, document the Nazi programme of genocide and get the word out to the disbelieving western allies - only to find that they didn't do anything about it - was completely eliminated from the carefully manipulated narrative of Yad Vashem's forum. It was also no surprise that RT (Russia's main propaganda channel for the international audience) featured wall to wall coverage of the forum and used the occasion to simultaneously pump out a torrent of anti-Polish disinformation that was even worse than usual.
A few days later on Holocaust Remembrance Day, the commemoration in Poland organised by the Auschwitz Memorial Museum at the site of the former German concentration camp was infinitely more dignified and respectful of the memory of the holocaust. Although there were speeches by politicians, they were kept to a minimum and largely avoided the kind of political point scoring, historical revisionism and holocaust distortion that characterised the forum in Israel. The Polish commemoration was dominated by the presence of 200 elderly Auschwitz survivors - several of whom made poignant, often deeply emotional speeches that put the vacuous drivel parroted by Putin and others at Yad Vashem to shame (and it was sad to see how little attention the international news media paid to the Auschwitz commemoration in comparison to the extensive coverage that was given to the forum in Israel).
It really is shocking that an organisation like Yad Vashem was so willing to insult the memory of the holocaust’s victims, as well as the millions of non-Jewish victims of the Nazis and Soviets, by allowing itself to be used as a conduit for the dissemination of the Kremlin’s revisionist lies and propaganda to a global audience, while licking the Russian president’s boots in public for all to see.
By doing so Yad Vashem embarrassed its own scholars, some of whom made critical statements in subsequent days, after which Yad Vashem issued an apology and also edited its official video of the event (which were welcome signs that the institution does retain some integrity and credibility, but the impact of this back-tracking was obviously tiny compared to that of the Vladimir Putin Show itself)....
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-yad-vashem-apologize...
UPDATE
In 2022, after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, Viatcheslav "Moshe" Kantor, was sanctioned for his ties to Vladimir Putin's war economy.
www.eureporter.co/world/russia/2022/04/11/moshe-kantor-st...
In the run up to the war, Yad Vashem had used its influence in an attempt to exclude another Russian oligarch, Roman Abramovich, from being sanctioned, as he was one of their biggest donors (as well as being a major funder of Israeli settlements in the occupied territories).
www.timesofisrael.com/yad-vashem-chief-rabbi-urged-us-not...
The museum eventually announced that they were going to stop taking his money, but only after he was sanctioned by the UK.
It's sad that an organisation with such an important mission has been so dependent on donations of dodgy Russian cash that two of Putin's oligarch buddies stole from the Russian people....
The 9P133 (Soviet/Russian designation) is a BRDM-2 mounting six Sagger (Malyutka) wire guided anti-tank missiles on a rising pedestal. I once encountered an Armiya BiH (Muslim) version with the missiles removed, and used as an APC. A close up of the missile pedestal.
The 9P133 (Soviet/Russian designation) is a BRDM-2 mounting six Sagger (Malyutka) wire guided anti-tank missiles on a rising pedestal. I once encountered an Armiya BiH (Muslim) version with the missiles removed, and used as an APC.
These is what remains of the old Soviet Army training base near Kiev that closed some time after the fall of the Soviet Union. This building was used for IFV(infantry fighting vehicle) training.
From Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-2
The Tupolev Tu-2 (development names ANT-58 and 103; NATO reporting name Bat) was a twin-engine Soviet high-speed daylight and frontline (SDB and FB) bomber aircraft of World War II vintage. The Tu-2 was tailored to meet a requirement for a high-speed bomber or dive-bomber, with a large internal bombload, and speed similar to that of a single-seat fighter. Designed to challenge the German Junkers Ju 88, the Tu-2 proved comparable, and was produced in torpedo, interceptor, and reconnaissance versions. The Tu-2 was one of the outstanding combat aircraft of World War II and it played a key role in the Red Army's final offensives.
Built from 1941 to 1948, the Tu-2 was the USSR's second most important twin-engine bomber (the first being the Pe-2). The design brought Andrei Tupolev back into favour after a period of detention. Crews were universally happy with their Tupolevs. Pilots could maneuver the aircraft like a fighter, it could survive heavy damage, and it was fast. The first Soviet unit to be equipped with the Tu-2 was 132 BAP of 3 VA (Vozdushnaya Armiya, Air Army). The aircraft had its baptism of fire over Velikiye Luki. There, in November–December 1942, this Tupolev bomber flew 46 sorties. On February 11, 1943, 132 BAP was transferred to 17 VA to support the drive toward River Dnepr and it flew another 47 sorties - attacking airfields and rail junctions - until April 13, when the unit was removed from frontline. By that time only three Tu-2s were lost in action, while seven were damaged. The Tu-2 remained in service in the USSR until 1950.
Some surplus Tu-2s were provided to the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force for use in the Chinese Civil War. Some Chinese Tu-2s were shot down by United Nations airmen during the Korean War. In the 1958–1962 'counter-riot actions' in the 1959 Tibetan uprising in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau covering Qinghai, Tibet, southern Gansu, and western Sichuan, Chinese PLAAF Tu-2s took on the roles of ground-attack, reconnaissance and liaison. The Chinese Tu-2s were retired at the end of the 1970s.
Photo by Eric Friedebach
These is what remains of the old Soviet Army training base near Kiev that closed some time after the fall of the Soviet Union. This building was used for IFV(infantry fighting vehicle) training.
These is what remains of the old Soviet Army training base near Kiev that closed some time after the fall of the Soviet Union. This building was used for IFV(infantry fighting vehicle) training.
These is what remains of the old Soviet Army training base near Kiev that closed some time after the fall of the Soviet Union. This building was used for IFV(infantry fighting vehicle) training.
These is what remains of the old Soviet Army training base near Kiev that closed some time after the fall of the Soviet Union. This building was used for IFV(infantry fighting vehicle) training.
Russ Arthur, 85 and Royal Navy veteran, passes his poppy to Joseph, his great grandson, aged 4 and a half - lest we forget ♥
A photo I took and uploaded last year with less post-processing.
Copyright © 2013 Martyn William
A 2S-1 SP 122mm Howitzer (Russian designation "Gvozdika" (Carnation) of the "Armiya Respublike Srpske" (VRS).
A 2S-1 SP 122mm Howitzer (Russian designation "Gvozdika" (Carnation) of the "Armiya Republike Srpske" (VRS).
A 2S-1 SP 122mm Howitzer (Russian designation "Gvozdika" (Carnation) of the "Armiya Respublike Srpske" (VRS).
These is what remains of the old Soviet Army training base near Kiev that closed some time after the fall of the Soviet Union. This building was used for IFV(infantry fighting vehicle) training.
04-08-1976, Izhevsk, Russia. Drafted round 8 #186 overall by Winnipeg Jets 1994. Ramil Saifullin is a retired Russian hockey forward. He made his debut in the best Russian hockey league 1993/94, when he was playing with Avangard Omsk. This time, he also was a member of the Russian Junior National Team playing at the European and World Championships 1994 and 1995. Saifullin later spent 2 years in North America, with the Beauport Harfangs in the QMJHL and the Quebec Rafales of the IHL. He went back to Russia for the 1997/98 season and played 7 years with Avangard Omsk in the Russian Hockey League. 5 seasons in the Russian Hockey League and in the Vysshaya Liga followed. Saifullin played with Izhstal Izhevsk, Barys Astana, Automobilist Yekaterinburg, Sibir Novosibirsk, Metallurg Novokuznetsk and Traktor Chelyabinsk were the teams he was playing for. Ramil Saifullin spent his last 3 years as an active hockey player with Sary-Arka Karaganda in the Kazakhstan League (2009 – 2012). His career stats: GP:931 / G:211 / A:250 / Pts:461 / PIM:376 (1993/94 – 2011/12).
After retiring from active hockey, he became a Head Coach for the Berkuty Kubani Krasnodar in the Russian junior MHL2. Another season with Berkuty Kubani Krasnodar in the MHL followed. He was an Assistant Coach for Krasnaya Armiya Moskva in the MHL, before he became the Head Coach of Izhstal Izhevsk in the Russian VHL. Saifullin spent the 2020/21 season as an Assistant Coach with AKM Novomoskovsk in the MHL followed, before he returned to Izhstal Izhevsk as the teams Head Coach for the 2021/22 season. After 2 seasons with Izhstal Izhevsk, Saifullin became an Assistant Coach for KHL team Avangard Omsk.
Lantun Orchestra (Nesia Ardi - Vocal, Chaka Priambudi - Bass, Tiyo Alibasjah - Guitar, Donny Prasetyo - Keyboard, Armiya Husein - Flute, Windy Setiadi - Accordion, Dika Chasmala - Violin, Kenny Gabriel - Trumpet, Arman Chaniago - Percussion) at Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival 2015
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POA=Русская Освободительная Армия, transcrit Russkaya Osvoboditel'naya Armiya, ou ROA
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Comme Ost Bataillon (Russe) combattants dans le Cotentin on peut citer: les 561, 600, 635 et 649.
05-05-1977, Izhevsk, Russia. Drafted round 8 #258 overall by Detroit Red Wings 2001. Dmitri Bykov is Russian former hockey defenceman. He played junior hockey for his hometown Izhstal Izhevsk. He made his debut in the Russian Hockey League in the 1995/96 season. Bykov played for CSK VVS Samara. 6 seasons in the Russian Hockey League followed, Bykov was playing with Samara, Lada Togliatti, Torpedo Yaroslavl and AK Bars Kazan. He joined the Detroit Red Wings for the 2002/03 season and made 75 games for the Red Wings. He returned to Russia after one season and played another 11 seasons in the Russian Hockey League and later in the KHL. Bykov was a member of AK Bars Kazan, Dynamo Moscow, Khimik Mytishchi, Metallurg Magnitogorsk, Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod and finally of Amur Khabarovsk. He hired with CSKA Sofia of the Bulgarian League for the 2014/15 season, but only played 3 Continental Cup games with Sofia before he retired. Dmitri Bykov was a member of the Russian national team and played several European Hockey Tours for Russia, but also the WC 1999, 2002, 2004 and 2006. His NHL-Stats: GP:75 / G:2 / A:10 / Pts:12 / PIM:43 ; Career-Stats: GP:1130 / G:82 / A:169 / Pts:251 / PIM:770 (1994/95 – 2014/15).
After retirement, Dmitri Bykov hired as an Assistant Coach with MHL team Krasnaya Armiya Moscow for the 2019/20 season. 2 seasons as an Assistant Coach with VHL team Zvezda Moscow followed. He returned to Krasnaya Armiya Moscow for the 2023/24 season, again as the teams Assistant Coach.
Lantun Orchestra (Nesia Ardi - Vocal, Chaka Priambudi - Bass, Tiyo Alibasjah - Guitar, Donny Prasetyo - Keyboard, Armiya Husein - Flute, Windy Setiadi - Accordion, Dika Chasmala - Violin, Kenny Gabriel - Trumpet, Arman Chaniago - Percussion) at Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival 2015
09-27-1971, Izhevsk, Russia. Leschev is a retired professional hockey player. He started his career with CSKA Moscow 1991/92. He played for the CSKA team till 2003, including 12 games when the CSKA played as the Russian Penguins in the IHL. Leschev joined Khimik Voskresensk for the 2003/04 season and played in Voskresensk till 2008. He spent his first KHL year with Atlant Mytischy where he still got 38 scoring points in 55 games. He began the 2009/10 season with St. Petersburg before he was traded to CSKA Moscow, where his amazing career started. Albert Leschev retired after the 2009/10 season. His career stats: GP:907 / G:211 / A:329 / Pts:540 / PIM:518 (1991/92 – 2009/10).
After retiring from active hockey, Leschev worked as an Assistant Coach for Krasnaya Armiya Moscow, a junior team of the MHL. Leschev was the Head Coach of Zvezda-VDV Dmitrov, a team playing in the Russian VHL in the 2015/16 season. He was an Assistant Coach for CSKA Moscow in the 2017/18 season and the Head Coach of Krasnaya Armiya Moskva in Russian top junior league MHL. Leschev became an Assistant Coach with SKA-1946 St. Petersburg for the 2019/20 season and replaced Head Coach Alexander Titov in February 2021. He also worked in the Staff of the Russian national team, Leschev was the Head Coach of the U18 team and the Assistant Coach of the senior national team at the EHT and WC. Leschev became an Assistant Coach for SKA St. Petersburg in the KHL for the 2021/22 season.
Lantun Orchestra (Nesia Ardi - Vocal, Chaka Priambudi - Bass, Tiyo Alibasjah - Guitar, Donny Prasetyo - Keyboard, Armiya Husein - Flute, Windy Setiadi - Accordion, Dika Chasmala - Violin, Kenny Gabriel - Trumpet, Arman Chaniago - Percussion) at Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival 2015
From Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-2
The Tupolev Tu-2 (development names ANT-58 and 103; NATO reporting name Bat) was a twin-engine Soviet high-speed daylight and frontline (SDB and FB) bomber aircraft of World War II vintage. The Tu-2 was tailored to meet a requirement for a high-speed bomber or dive-bomber, with a large internal bombload, and speed similar to that of a single-seat fighter. Designed to challenge the German Junkers Ju 88, the Tu-2 proved comparable, and was produced in torpedo, interceptor, and reconnaissance versions. The Tu-2 was one of the outstanding combat aircraft of World War II and it played a key role in the Red Army's final offensives.
Built from 1941 to 1948, the Tu-2 was the USSR's second most important twin-engine bomber (the first being the Pe-2). The design brought Andrei Tupolev back into favour after a period of detention. Crews were universally happy with their Tupolevs. Pilots could maneuver the aircraft like a fighter, it could survive heavy damage, and it was fast. The first Soviet unit to be equipped with the Tu-2 was 132 BAP of 3 VA (Vozdushnaya Armiya, Air Army). The aircraft had its baptism of fire over Velikiye Luki. There, in November–December 1942, this Tupolev bomber flew 46 sorties. On February 11, 1943, 132 BAP was transferred to 17 VA to support the drive toward River Dnepr and it flew another 47 sorties - attacking airfields and rail junctions - until April 13, when the unit was removed from frontline. By that time only three Tu-2s were lost in action, while seven were damaged. The Tu-2 remained in service in the USSR until 1950.
Some surplus Tu-2s were provided to the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force for use in the Chinese Civil War. Some Chinese Tu-2s were shot down by United Nations airmen during the Korean War. In the 1958–1962 'counter-riot actions' in the 1959 Tibetan uprising in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau covering Qinghai, Tibet, southern Gansu, and western Sichuan, Chinese PLAAF Tu-2s took on the roles of ground-attack, reconnaissance and liaison. The Chinese Tu-2s were retired at the end of the 1970s.
Photo by Eric Friedebach
From Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-2
The Tupolev Tu-2 (development names ANT-58 and 103; NATO reporting name Bat) was a twin-engine Soviet high-speed daylight and frontline (SDB and FB) bomber aircraft of World War II vintage. The Tu-2 was tailored to meet a requirement for a high-speed bomber or dive-bomber, with a large internal bombload, and speed similar to that of a single-seat fighter. Designed to challenge the German Junkers Ju 88, the Tu-2 proved comparable, and was produced in torpedo, interceptor, and reconnaissance versions. The Tu-2 was one of the outstanding combat aircraft of World War II and it played a key role in the Red Army's final offensives.
Built from 1941 to 1948, the Tu-2 was the USSR's second most important twin-engine bomber (the first being the Pe-2). The design brought Andrei Tupolev back into favour after a period of detention. Crews were universally happy with their Tupolevs. Pilots could maneuver the aircraft like a fighter, it could survive heavy damage, and it was fast. The first Soviet unit to be equipped with the Tu-2 was 132 BAP of 3 VA (Vozdushnaya Armiya, Air Army). The aircraft had its baptism of fire over Velikiye Luki. There, in November–December 1942, this Tupolev bomber flew 46 sorties. On February 11, 1943, 132 BAP was transferred to 17 VA to support the drive toward River Dnepr and it flew another 47 sorties - attacking airfields and rail junctions - until April 13, when the unit was removed from frontline. By that time only three Tu-2s were lost in action, while seven were damaged. The Tu-2 remained in service in the USSR until 1950.
Some surplus Tu-2s were provided to the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force for use in the Chinese Civil War. Some Chinese Tu-2s were shot down by United Nations airmen during the Korean War. In the 1958–1962 'counter-riot actions' in the 1959 Tibetan uprising in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau covering Qinghai, Tibet, southern Gansu, and western Sichuan, Chinese PLAAF Tu-2s took on the roles of ground-attack, reconnaissance and liaison. The Chinese Tu-2s were retired at the end of the 1970s.
Photo by Eric Friedebach
From Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-2
The Tupolev Tu-2 (development names ANT-58 and 103; NATO reporting name Bat) was a twin-engine Soviet high-speed daylight and frontline (SDB and FB) bomber aircraft of World War II vintage. The Tu-2 was tailored to meet a requirement for a high-speed bomber or dive-bomber, with a large internal bombload, and speed similar to that of a single-seat fighter. Designed to challenge the German Junkers Ju 88, the Tu-2 proved comparable, and was produced in torpedo, interceptor, and reconnaissance versions. The Tu-2 was one of the outstanding combat aircraft of World War II and it played a key role in the Red Army's final offensives.
Built from 1941 to 1948, the Tu-2 was the USSR's second most important twin-engine bomber (the first being the Pe-2). The design brought Andrei Tupolev back into favour after a period of detention. Crews were universally happy with their Tupolevs. Pilots could maneuver the aircraft like a fighter, it could survive heavy damage, and it was fast. The first Soviet unit to be equipped with the Tu-2 was 132 BAP of 3 VA (Vozdushnaya Armiya, Air Army). The aircraft had its baptism of fire over Velikiye Luki. There, in November–December 1942, this Tupolev bomber flew 46 sorties. On February 11, 1943, 132 BAP was transferred to 17 VA to support the drive toward River Dnepr and it flew another 47 sorties - attacking airfields and rail junctions - until April 13, when the unit was removed from frontline. By that time only three Tu-2s were lost in action, while seven were damaged. The Tu-2 remained in service in the USSR until 1950.
Some surplus Tu-2s were provided to the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force for use in the Chinese Civil War. Some Chinese Tu-2s were shot down by United Nations airmen during the Korean War. In the 1958–1962 'counter-riot actions' in the 1959 Tibetan uprising in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau covering Qinghai, Tibet, southern Gansu, and western Sichuan, Chinese PLAAF Tu-2s took on the roles of ground-attack, reconnaissance and liaison. The Chinese Tu-2s were retired at the end of the 1970s.
Photo by Eric Friedebach
From Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-2
The Tupolev Tu-2 (development names ANT-58 and 103; NATO reporting name Bat) was a twin-engine Soviet high-speed daylight and frontline (SDB and FB) bomber aircraft of World War II vintage. The Tu-2 was tailored to meet a requirement for a high-speed bomber or dive-bomber, with a large internal bombload, and speed similar to that of a single-seat fighter. Designed to challenge the German Junkers Ju 88, the Tu-2 proved comparable, and was produced in torpedo, interceptor, and reconnaissance versions. The Tu-2 was one of the outstanding combat aircraft of World War II and it played a key role in the Red Army's final offensives.
Built from 1941 to 1948, the Tu-2 was the USSR's second most important twin-engine bomber (the first being the Pe-2). The design brought Andrei Tupolev back into favour after a period of detention. Crews were universally happy with their Tupolevs. Pilots could maneuver the aircraft like a fighter, it could survive heavy damage, and it was fast. The first Soviet unit to be equipped with the Tu-2 was 132 BAP of 3 VA (Vozdushnaya Armiya, Air Army). The aircraft had its baptism of fire over Velikiye Luki. There, in November–December 1942, this Tupolev bomber flew 46 sorties. On February 11, 1943, 132 BAP was transferred to 17 VA to support the drive toward River Dnepr and it flew another 47 sorties - attacking airfields and rail junctions - until April 13, when the unit was removed from frontline. By that time only three Tu-2s were lost in action, while seven were damaged. The Tu-2 remained in service in the USSR until 1950.
Some surplus Tu-2s were provided to the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force for use in the Chinese Civil War. Some Chinese Tu-2s were shot down by United Nations airmen during the Korean War. In the 1958–1962 'counter-riot actions' in the 1959 Tibetan uprising in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau covering Qinghai, Tibet, southern Gansu, and western Sichuan, Chinese PLAAF Tu-2s took on the roles of ground-attack, reconnaissance and liaison. The Chinese Tu-2s were retired at the end of the 1970s.
Photo by Eric Friedebach
From Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-2
The Tupolev Tu-2 (development names ANT-58 and 103; NATO reporting name Bat) was a twin-engine Soviet high-speed daylight and frontline (SDB and FB) bomber aircraft of World War II vintage. The Tu-2 was tailored to meet a requirement for a high-speed bomber or dive-bomber, with a large internal bombload, and speed similar to that of a single-seat fighter. Designed to challenge the German Junkers Ju 88, the Tu-2 proved comparable, and was produced in torpedo, interceptor, and reconnaissance versions. The Tu-2 was one of the outstanding combat aircraft of World War II and it played a key role in the Red Army's final offensives.
Built from 1941 to 1948, the Tu-2 was the USSR's second most important twin-engine bomber (the first being the Pe-2). The design brought Andrei Tupolev back into favour after a period of detention. Crews were universally happy with their Tupolevs. Pilots could maneuver the aircraft like a fighter, it could survive heavy damage, and it was fast. The first Soviet unit to be equipped with the Tu-2 was 132 BAP of 3 VA (Vozdushnaya Armiya, Air Army). The aircraft had its baptism of fire over Velikiye Luki. There, in November–December 1942, this Tupolev bomber flew 46 sorties. On February 11, 1943, 132 BAP was transferred to 17 VA to support the drive toward River Dnepr and it flew another 47 sorties - attacking airfields and rail junctions - until April 13, when the unit was removed from frontline. By that time only three Tu-2s were lost in action, while seven were damaged. The Tu-2 remained in service in the USSR until 1950.
Some surplus Tu-2s were provided to the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force for use in the Chinese Civil War. Some Chinese Tu-2s were shot down by United Nations airmen during the Korean War. In the 1958–1962 'counter-riot actions' in the 1959 Tibetan uprising in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau covering Qinghai, Tibet, southern Gansu, and western Sichuan, Chinese PLAAF Tu-2s took on the roles of ground-attack, reconnaissance and liaison. The Chinese Tu-2s were retired at the end of the 1970s.
Photo by Eric Friedebach
From Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-2
The Tupolev Tu-2 (development names ANT-58 and 103; NATO reporting name Bat) was a twin-engine Soviet high-speed daylight and frontline (SDB and FB) bomber aircraft of World War II vintage. The Tu-2 was tailored to meet a requirement for a high-speed bomber or dive-bomber, with a large internal bombload, and speed similar to that of a single-seat fighter. Designed to challenge the German Junkers Ju 88, the Tu-2 proved comparable, and was produced in torpedo, interceptor, and reconnaissance versions. The Tu-2 was one of the outstanding combat aircraft of World War II and it played a key role in the Red Army's final offensives.
Built from 1941 to 1948, the Tu-2 was the USSR's second most important twin-engine bomber (the first being the Pe-2). The design brought Andrei Tupolev back into favour after a period of detention. Crews were universally happy with their Tupolevs. Pilots could maneuver the aircraft like a fighter, it could survive heavy damage, and it was fast. The first Soviet unit to be equipped with the Tu-2 was 132 BAP of 3 VA (Vozdushnaya Armiya, Air Army). The aircraft had its baptism of fire over Velikiye Luki. There, in November–December 1942, this Tupolev bomber flew 46 sorties. On February 11, 1943, 132 BAP was transferred to 17 VA to support the drive toward River Dnepr and it flew another 47 sorties - attacking airfields and rail junctions - until April 13, when the unit was removed from frontline. By that time only three Tu-2s were lost in action, while seven were damaged. The Tu-2 remained in service in the USSR until 1950.
Some surplus Tu-2s were provided to the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force for use in the Chinese Civil War. Some Chinese Tu-2s were shot down by United Nations airmen during the Korean War. In the 1958–1962 'counter-riot actions' in the 1959 Tibetan uprising in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau covering Qinghai, Tibet, southern Gansu, and western Sichuan, Chinese PLAAF Tu-2s took on the roles of ground-attack, reconnaissance and liaison. The Chinese Tu-2s were retired at the end of the 1970s.
Photo by Eric Friedebach
From Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-2
The Tupolev Tu-2 (development names ANT-58 and 103; NATO reporting name Bat) was a twin-engine Soviet high-speed daylight and frontline (SDB and FB) bomber aircraft of World War II vintage. The Tu-2 was tailored to meet a requirement for a high-speed bomber or dive-bomber, with a large internal bombload, and speed similar to that of a single-seat fighter. Designed to challenge the German Junkers Ju 88, the Tu-2 proved comparable, and was produced in torpedo, interceptor, and reconnaissance versions. The Tu-2 was one of the outstanding combat aircraft of World War II and it played a key role in the Red Army's final offensives.
Built from 1941 to 1948, the Tu-2 was the USSR's second most important twin-engine bomber (the first being the Pe-2). The design brought Andrei Tupolev back into favour after a period of detention. Crews were universally happy with their Tupolevs. Pilots could maneuver the aircraft like a fighter, it could survive heavy damage, and it was fast. The first Soviet unit to be equipped with the Tu-2 was 132 BAP of 3 VA (Vozdushnaya Armiya, Air Army). The aircraft had its baptism of fire over Velikiye Luki. There, in November–December 1942, this Tupolev bomber flew 46 sorties. On February 11, 1943, 132 BAP was transferred to 17 VA to support the drive toward River Dnepr and it flew another 47 sorties - attacking airfields and rail junctions - until April 13, when the unit was removed from frontline. By that time only three Tu-2s were lost in action, while seven were damaged. The Tu-2 remained in service in the USSR until 1950.
Some surplus Tu-2s were provided to the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force for use in the Chinese Civil War. Some Chinese Tu-2s were shot down by United Nations airmen during the Korean War. In the 1958–1962 'counter-riot actions' in the 1959 Tibetan uprising in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau covering Qinghai, Tibet, southern Gansu, and western Sichuan, Chinese PLAAF Tu-2s took on the roles of ground-attack, reconnaissance and liaison. The Chinese Tu-2s were retired at the end of the 1970s.
Photo by Eric Friedebach
From Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-2
The Tupolev Tu-2 (development names ANT-58 and 103; NATO reporting name Bat) was a twin-engine Soviet high-speed daylight and frontline (SDB and FB) bomber aircraft of World War II vintage. The Tu-2 was tailored to meet a requirement for a high-speed bomber or dive-bomber, with a large internal bombload, and speed similar to that of a single-seat fighter. Designed to challenge the German Junkers Ju 88, the Tu-2 proved comparable, and was produced in torpedo, interceptor, and reconnaissance versions. The Tu-2 was one of the outstanding combat aircraft of World War II and it played a key role in the Red Army's final offensives.
Built from 1941 to 1948, the Tu-2 was the USSR's second most important twin-engine bomber (the first being the Pe-2). The design brought Andrei Tupolev back into favour after a period of detention. Crews were universally happy with their Tupolevs. Pilots could maneuver the aircraft like a fighter, it could survive heavy damage, and it was fast. The first Soviet unit to be equipped with the Tu-2 was 132 BAP of 3 VA (Vozdushnaya Armiya, Air Army). The aircraft had its baptism of fire over Velikiye Luki. There, in November–December 1942, this Tupolev bomber flew 46 sorties. On February 11, 1943, 132 BAP was transferred to 17 VA to support the drive toward River Dnepr and it flew another 47 sorties - attacking airfields and rail junctions - until April 13, when the unit was removed from frontline. By that time only three Tu-2s were lost in action, while seven were damaged. The Tu-2 remained in service in the USSR until 1950.
Some surplus Tu-2s were provided to the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force for use in the Chinese Civil War. Some Chinese Tu-2s were shot down by United Nations airmen during the Korean War. In the 1958–1962 'counter-riot actions' in the 1959 Tibetan uprising in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau covering Qinghai, Tibet, southern Gansu, and western Sichuan, Chinese PLAAF Tu-2s took on the roles of ground-attack, reconnaissance and liaison. The Chinese Tu-2s were retired at the end of the 1970s.
Photo by Eric Friedebach
From Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-2
The Tupolev Tu-2 (development names ANT-58 and 103; NATO reporting name Bat) was a twin-engine Soviet high-speed daylight and frontline (SDB and FB) bomber aircraft of World War II vintage. The Tu-2 was tailored to meet a requirement for a high-speed bomber or dive-bomber, with a large internal bombload, and speed similar to that of a single-seat fighter. Designed to challenge the German Junkers Ju 88, the Tu-2 proved comparable, and was produced in torpedo, interceptor, and reconnaissance versions. The Tu-2 was one of the outstanding combat aircraft of World War II and it played a key role in the Red Army's final offensives.
Built from 1941 to 1948, the Tu-2 was the USSR's second most important twin-engine bomber (the first being the Pe-2). The design brought Andrei Tupolev back into favour after a period of detention. Crews were universally happy with their Tupolevs. Pilots could maneuver the aircraft like a fighter, it could survive heavy damage, and it was fast. The first Soviet unit to be equipped with the Tu-2 was 132 BAP of 3 VA (Vozdushnaya Armiya, Air Army). The aircraft had its baptism of fire over Velikiye Luki. There, in November–December 1942, this Tupolev bomber flew 46 sorties. On February 11, 1943, 132 BAP was transferred to 17 VA to support the drive toward River Dnepr and it flew another 47 sorties - attacking airfields and rail junctions - until April 13, when the unit was removed from frontline. By that time only three Tu-2s were lost in action, while seven were damaged. The Tu-2 remained in service in the USSR until 1950.
Some surplus Tu-2s were provided to the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force for use in the Chinese Civil War. Some Chinese Tu-2s were shot down by United Nations airmen during the Korean War. In the 1958–1962 'counter-riot actions' in the 1959 Tibetan uprising in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau covering Qinghai, Tibet, southern Gansu, and western Sichuan, Chinese PLAAF Tu-2s took on the roles of ground-attack, reconnaissance and liaison. The Chinese Tu-2s were retired at the end of the 1970s.
Photo by Eric Friedebach
From Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-2
The Tupolev Tu-2 (development names ANT-58 and 103; NATO reporting name Bat) was a twin-engine Soviet high-speed daylight and frontline (SDB and FB) bomber aircraft of World War II vintage. The Tu-2 was tailored to meet a requirement for a high-speed bomber or dive-bomber, with a large internal bombload, and speed similar to that of a single-seat fighter. Designed to challenge the German Junkers Ju 88, the Tu-2 proved comparable, and was produced in torpedo, interceptor, and reconnaissance versions. The Tu-2 was one of the outstanding combat aircraft of World War II and it played a key role in the Red Army's final offensives.
Built from 1941 to 1948, the Tu-2 was the USSR's second most important twin-engine bomber (the first being the Pe-2). The design brought Andrei Tupolev back into favour after a period of detention. Crews were universally happy with their Tupolevs. Pilots could maneuver the aircraft like a fighter, it could survive heavy damage, and it was fast. The first Soviet unit to be equipped with the Tu-2 was 132 BAP of 3 VA (Vozdushnaya Armiya, Air Army). The aircraft had its baptism of fire over Velikiye Luki. There, in November–December 1942, this Tupolev bomber flew 46 sorties. On February 11, 1943, 132 BAP was transferred to 17 VA to support the drive toward River Dnepr and it flew another 47 sorties - attacking airfields and rail junctions - until April 13, when the unit was removed from frontline. By that time only three Tu-2s were lost in action, while seven were damaged. The Tu-2 remained in service in the USSR until 1950.
Some surplus Tu-2s were provided to the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force for use in the Chinese Civil War. Some Chinese Tu-2s were shot down by United Nations airmen during the Korean War. In the 1958–1962 'counter-riot actions' in the 1959 Tibetan uprising in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau covering Qinghai, Tibet, southern Gansu, and western Sichuan, Chinese PLAAF Tu-2s took on the roles of ground-attack, reconnaissance and liaison. The Chinese Tu-2s were retired at the end of the 1970s.
Photo by Eric Friedebach
From Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-2
The Tupolev Tu-2 (development names ANT-58 and 103; NATO reporting name Bat) was a twin-engine Soviet high-speed daylight and frontline (SDB and FB) bomber aircraft of World War II vintage. The Tu-2 was tailored to meet a requirement for a high-speed bomber or dive-bomber, with a large internal bombload, and speed similar to that of a single-seat fighter. Designed to challenge the German Junkers Ju 88, the Tu-2 proved comparable, and was produced in torpedo, interceptor, and reconnaissance versions. The Tu-2 was one of the outstanding combat aircraft of World War II and it played a key role in the Red Army's final offensives.
Built from 1941 to 1948, the Tu-2 was the USSR's second most important twin-engine bomber (the first being the Pe-2). The design brought Andrei Tupolev back into favour after a period of detention. Crews were universally happy with their Tupolevs. Pilots could maneuver the aircraft like a fighter, it could survive heavy damage, and it was fast. The first Soviet unit to be equipped with the Tu-2 was 132 BAP of 3 VA (Vozdushnaya Armiya, Air Army). The aircraft had its baptism of fire over Velikiye Luki. There, in November–December 1942, this Tupolev bomber flew 46 sorties. On February 11, 1943, 132 BAP was transferred to 17 VA to support the drive toward River Dnepr and it flew another 47 sorties - attacking airfields and rail junctions - until April 13, when the unit was removed from frontline. By that time only three Tu-2s were lost in action, while seven were damaged. The Tu-2 remained in service in the USSR until 1950.
Some surplus Tu-2s were provided to the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force for use in the Chinese Civil War. Some Chinese Tu-2s were shot down by United Nations airmen during the Korean War. In the 1958–1962 'counter-riot actions' in the 1959 Tibetan uprising in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau covering Qinghai, Tibet, southern Gansu, and western Sichuan, Chinese PLAAF Tu-2s took on the roles of ground-attack, reconnaissance and liaison. The Chinese Tu-2s were retired at the end of the 1970s.
Photo by Eric Friedebach
From Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-2
The Tupolev Tu-2 (development names ANT-58 and 103; NATO reporting name Bat) was a twin-engine Soviet high-speed daylight and frontline (SDB and FB) bomber aircraft of World War II vintage. The Tu-2 was tailored to meet a requirement for a high-speed bomber or dive-bomber, with a large internal bombload, and speed similar to that of a single-seat fighter. Designed to challenge the German Junkers Ju 88, the Tu-2 proved comparable, and was produced in torpedo, interceptor, and reconnaissance versions. The Tu-2 was one of the outstanding combat aircraft of World War II and it played a key role in the Red Army's final offensives.
Built from 1941 to 1948, the Tu-2 was the USSR's second most important twin-engine bomber (the first being the Pe-2). The design brought Andrei Tupolev back into favour after a period of detention. Crews were universally happy with their Tupolevs. Pilots could maneuver the aircraft like a fighter, it could survive heavy damage, and it was fast. The first Soviet unit to be equipped with the Tu-2 was 132 BAP of 3 VA (Vozdushnaya Armiya, Air Army). The aircraft had its baptism of fire over Velikiye Luki. There, in November–December 1942, this Tupolev bomber flew 46 sorties. On February 11, 1943, 132 BAP was transferred to 17 VA to support the drive toward River Dnepr and it flew another 47 sorties - attacking airfields and rail junctions - until April 13, when the unit was removed from frontline. By that time only three Tu-2s were lost in action, while seven were damaged. The Tu-2 remained in service in the USSR until 1950.
Some surplus Tu-2s were provided to the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force for use in the Chinese Civil War. Some Chinese Tu-2s were shot down by United Nations airmen during the Korean War. In the 1958–1962 'counter-riot actions' in the 1959 Tibetan uprising in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau covering Qinghai, Tibet, southern Gansu, and western Sichuan, Chinese PLAAF Tu-2s took on the roles of ground-attack, reconnaissance and liaison. The Chinese Tu-2s were retired at the end of the 1970s.
Photo by Eric Friedebach
From Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-2
The Tupolev Tu-2 (development names ANT-58 and 103; NATO reporting name Bat) was a twin-engine Soviet high-speed daylight and frontline (SDB and FB) bomber aircraft of World War II vintage. The Tu-2 was tailored to meet a requirement for a high-speed bomber or dive-bomber, with a large internal bombload, and speed similar to that of a single-seat fighter. Designed to challenge the German Junkers Ju 88, the Tu-2 proved comparable, and was produced in torpedo, interceptor, and reconnaissance versions. The Tu-2 was one of the outstanding combat aircraft of World War II and it played a key role in the Red Army's final offensives.
Built from 1941 to 1948, the Tu-2 was the USSR's second most important twin-engine bomber (the first being the Pe-2). The design brought Andrei Tupolev back into favour after a period of detention. Crews were universally happy with their Tupolevs. Pilots could maneuver the aircraft like a fighter, it could survive heavy damage, and it was fast. The first Soviet unit to be equipped with the Tu-2 was 132 BAP of 3 VA (Vozdushnaya Armiya, Air Army). The aircraft had its baptism of fire over Velikiye Luki. There, in November–December 1942, this Tupolev bomber flew 46 sorties. On February 11, 1943, 132 BAP was transferred to 17 VA to support the drive toward River Dnepr and it flew another 47 sorties - attacking airfields and rail junctions - until April 13, when the unit was removed from frontline. By that time only three Tu-2s were lost in action, while seven were damaged. The Tu-2 remained in service in the USSR until 1950.
Some surplus Tu-2s were provided to the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force for use in the Chinese Civil War. Some Chinese Tu-2s were shot down by United Nations airmen during the Korean War. In the 1958–1962 'counter-riot actions' in the 1959 Tibetan uprising in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau covering Qinghai, Tibet, southern Gansu, and western Sichuan, Chinese PLAAF Tu-2s took on the roles of ground-attack, reconnaissance and liaison. The Chinese Tu-2s were retired at the end of the 1970s.
Photo by Eric Friedebach
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From Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-2
The Tupolev Tu-2 (development names ANT-58 and 103; NATO reporting name Bat) was a twin-engine Soviet high-speed daylight and frontline (SDB and FB) bomber aircraft of World War II vintage. The Tu-2 was tailored to meet a requirement for a high-speed bomber or dive-bomber, with a large internal bombload, and speed similar to that of a single-seat fighter. Designed to challenge the German Junkers Ju 88, the Tu-2 proved comparable, and was produced in torpedo, interceptor, and reconnaissance versions. The Tu-2 was one of the outstanding combat aircraft of World War II and it played a key role in the Red Army's final offensives.
Built from 1941 to 1948, the Tu-2 was the USSR's second most important twin-engine bomber (the first being the Pe-2). The design brought Andrei Tupolev back into favour after a period of detention. Crews were universally happy with their Tupolevs. Pilots could maneuver the aircraft like a fighter, it could survive heavy damage, and it was fast. The first Soviet unit to be equipped with the Tu-2 was 132 BAP of 3 VA (Vozdushnaya Armiya, Air Army). The aircraft had its baptism of fire over Velikiye Luki. There, in November–December 1942, this Tupolev bomber flew 46 sorties. On February 11, 1943, 132 BAP was transferred to 17 VA to support the drive toward River Dnepr and it flew another 47 sorties - attacking airfields and rail junctions - until April 13, when the unit was removed from frontline. By that time only three Tu-2s were lost in action, while seven were damaged. The Tu-2 remained in service in the USSR until 1950.
Some surplus Tu-2s were provided to the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force for use in the Chinese Civil War. Some Chinese Tu-2s were shot down by United Nations airmen during the Korean War. In the 1958–1962 'counter-riot actions' in the 1959 Tibetan uprising in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau covering Qinghai, Tibet, southern Gansu, and western Sichuan, Chinese PLAAF Tu-2s took on the roles of ground-attack, reconnaissance and liaison. The Chinese Tu-2s were retired at the end of the 1970s.
Photo by Eric Friedebach