Subject: Re: My new attachment!
From: "Submissions for ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "COMANDANTEMAD4" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:24:20 -0700

Hi,
I just wanted to let you know your article went on ARC today.  Thanks again for sending it in.

Steve Bamford
Aircraft Resource Center
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  From: COMANDANTEMAD4 
  To: submissions 
  Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 8:08 AM
  Subject: My new attachment!

  Hello steve, my new attachment!

  "Il-2 M3 Sturmovik, Captain`s Efimova fighter" 
  by "Tigre del Aire"
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  Greetings from Colombia! This it is the famous one Sturmovik, plane been afraid by the crew members of German tanks for its efficiency at the moment of hunting them and precision in to bombard them, heavily armed and armored it was the top of lance in several operations in Russia and then in the rest of Europa up to very approached the years 50; here its history:

  The Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik (Russian: Ил-2 Штурмовик) was a ground attack aircraft in the Second World War, produced by the Soviet Union in huge numbers. In combination with its successor, the Ilyushin Il-10, a total of 36,163 were built, making it the single most produced military aircraft design in all of aviation history as well as the third most produced aircraft in history behind the Cessna 172 and the Polikarpov Po-2. It was the leading aircraft for tank kills with its accuracy in diving bombing.
  To Shturmovik pilots, the aircraft was simply the diminutive "Ilyusha". To the soldiers on the ground, it was the "Hunchback," the "Flying Tank" or, the greatest of compliments, the "Flying Infantryman." The Il-2 aircraft played a crucial role on the Eastern Front, and in Soviet opinion it was the most decisive aircraft in the history of modern land warfare. Joseph Stalin paid the Il-2 a great tribute in his own inimitable manner: when a particular production factory fell behind on its deliveries, Stalin sent the following cable to the factory manager: "They are as essential to the Red Army as air and bread"
  Among the pilots who gained fame flying the Il-2, was Senior Lieutenant Anna Yegorova, a female pilot who flew 260 missions. She was decorated three times, the last "posthumously", as she was presumed dead after being shot down. In fact, she managed to survive imprisonment in a German concentration camp. Jr Lt Ivan Grigorevich Drachenko, another Il-2 pilot, was reputedly one of only four men who were both decorated as Heroes of the Soviet Union and also won all three of the Orders of Glory. Pilots Begeldinov, Mylnikov, Alekseenko and Gareev received two gold stars of the Hero of the Soviet Union, the last of them received both stars in one day.

  Hero of the Soviet Union T. Kuznetsov survived the crash of his Il-2 in 1942 when shot down returning from a reconnaissance mission. Kuznetsov was able to escape from the wreck and hid nearby. To his surprise, a German Bf 109 landed near the crash site and the pilot began to scrounge around the wrecked Il-2 for souvenirs. Thinking quickly, Kuznetsov ran to the German fighter and used it to fly home, barely avoiding being shot down by Soviet fighters in the process.[8]

  Typical of Soviet Second World War aircraft, many Il-2s were "gifts" presented to specific pilots and partially paid for by organizations like hometowns, factories or comrades of another fallen pilot. The most famous of these was an aircraft purchased with the savings of a seven-year-old daughter of the fallen commander of the 237th ShAP. Learning of her father's death, the girl sent 100 rubles directly to Stalin asking him to use the money for an Il-2 to avenge her father. Remarkably, Stalin actually received the letter and 237th ShAP received a new Il-2m3 with the inscription "From Lenochka for father" on the side. (from Wikipedia)

  This aircraft was guided for Captain A.N. Efimova, of that I did not find major indications, nevertheless, they can estimate that conserve divides from the winter camouflage in the fuselage; itused it at the end of 1945.

  This it is a kit Airfix, excellently the lace of the pieces, clear there is that within did not have things major and i did the tank of fuel to it, the wings, floor and frontal panel of instruments of the cabin of the pilot, in the cabin of the machine gunner i did the boxes of ammunition to it; at all badly to be a project of weekend! . 

  COLOMBIA ES PASION!

  Saludos desde Colombia, la tierra de Juan Valdez!

  Greetings from Colombia, the land of Juan Valdez!

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