#yakovlev aviation

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French pilots from the Normandie-Niemen squadron who fought the Germans on the Eastern front: Junior Pilot Joseph Risso, Lieutenant Derviov, and Lieutenant Noël Castelen. A Yak-1B fighter is seen in the background. June 17, 1943

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Yakovlev Yak-11 D-FYAK,

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French police, military personnel and civilians near Soviet-made Yak-3 fighters of the 1st separate air regiment of fighting France "Normandie-Niemen" at Le Bourget airfield. June 1945

In June 1945, the Normandie-Niemen regiment, led by a Pe-2 bomber, departed the USSR for Le Bourget, France, with 38 Yak-3 aircraft (out of 40 donated by the Soviet government), which had recently left the aircraft factory assembly shop

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Yakovlev Yak-141 hovers at the 1992 Farnborough Airshow.

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F-AZXZ - Yakovlev Yak-3M

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French pilot of the Normandie-Niemen regiment, Lieutenant Roger Marquis, in the cockpit of his Yak-3 fighter. By the end of the war, Marquis had shot down 13 German aircraft.

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Yak-3M White

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Normandie-Niemen French Pilots who Flew for the Soviet Air Force in WW2.

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