A photo from open sources Hydrological researchers the ship bottom of the Kerch Strait, found near Cape Tuzla attack aircraft “Il-2” during the Great Patriotic War. The wreckage of the Soviet attack aircraft was immediately raised to the surface. Inside were the remains of a pilot.
Representatives of the search squad told reporters that The exhumation procedure was carried out directly in Gelendzhik. IN the cabin in seven decades has accumulated large volumes of bottom deposits that experts carefully removed. Under the mud the skeleton of the pilot and his personal belongings were revealed, in particular the order Red Banner and life jacket. The findings indicated that the attack aircraft was part of the air force Black Sea Fleet.
A photo from open sources
The search engines managed to find out that the aircraft found was released July 19, 1943 November 1, 1943 twenty-five year old pilot of Beats and twenty-one year-old shooter-radio operator Kalinkin did not return from a combat mission, being shot down over The Kerch Strait enemy. On this day the pilots fascist German air forces reported their numerous victories in the area of the Kerch Strait.
Russian search engines say that a young Soviet pilot Alexander Udarov in the summer of 1943 made fourteen combat departures. The last time the pilot didn’t take with a parachute, which did not allow him to escape. Extends the assumption that he made it with one purpose – to exclude the possibility of being captured in the event of an airplane crash.
A photo from open sources
A photo from open sources
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