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250-kilogram FAB-250 bombs in factory packaging before being mounted on a Soviet Pe-8 bomber. 1943
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250-kilogram FAB-250 bombs in factory packaging before being mounted on a Soviet Pe-8 bomber. 1943
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Painting l did in 2018.
Petlyakov Pe-8, the only 4-engine heavy-bomber built by the Russians during WW2. Fewer than 100 were built but the type flew combat sorties between Aug 1941 through to the spring of 1944. Losses to mechanical failure outnumbered those to enemy fire.
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Petlyakov Pe-8. Bomber No. 4202 with Soviet aviators
Heavy bomber PE-8 of 890 BAP. Crew, from left to right: Navigator N. Turkovsky, commander A. Y. Shamray, pilot A. Sukorkin, Navigator I. Goncharov.
The crew of the bomber PE-8 25, the gap DD, photos 26.6.1944.
Guard pilot major Sugak Sergei Savelevich, summer 1943 in the background PE-8 No. 42058 with m-82 engines
In the air PE-8
Soviet heavy bomber PE-8 (TB-7) №42066 at the airport in the Scottish Dundee, may 1942.