Polikarpov Po-2....

[hasegawa]

The "Battle-Series from the Sturmovik-Team has updatet to a new engine...

Moscow
Stalingrad
Kuban
Prochorovka
Unternehmen Bodenplatte

and WWI-Sim "Flying Circus"

are "new"...

Today first flight on a Polikarpov Po 2...

[Splitpin]

I think that's a beautiful little aircraft....great post.

[hasegawa]

For Soviet aviation, it has the same significance as the DeHavilld D. H. 82 "Tiger Moth"; for the Royal Air Force and all other Air Forces in the Commonwealth of Nations in WWII. A construction from 1931. Without this airplane and training in the countless flying clubs of the DOOSAF, the USSR would not have been able to withstand. As small and inconspicuous as this thing is, it was even flown as a night bomber. There was a regiment of women called the "witches of the night"; by the Germans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Witches

There is one book namend "The Sky Remains Ours" by Marina Pavlovna Chechneva
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Chechneva

In this book she vividly and with a lot of feeling describes how she and her comrades flew and fought. It's one of the autobiographies that won't leave you cold.

[Jeffref]

The Po-2 also turned up in "Last Citadel" by David Robbins based on the Battle of Kursk. Thanks for the pics.

[hasegawa]

It may for You from interest, that the pictures are from the map of the the Tank-Simulation "Tank crew"
south of Kursk and Prochorovka

https://il2sturmovik.com/store/tank-crew/
As a part of the Battle-Series you can also fly over the map and engage from above for example with the Hentschel HS 129B-2 Tank-Buster or the Iljushin Il 2... or the brand new Yak 9T withe the big cannon...