#la-7

La-7 fighters of the 9th Guards Odessa Fighter Aviation Regiment in the hangar of an airfield in East Prussia. May 1945.

The close-range fighter is the aircraft of the Hero of the Soviet Union Sultan Akhmet-Khan (1920-1971). The long-range fighter is the aircraft of Akhmet-Khan's wingman, Borisov. Both aircraft have the same emblems: an eagle against the background of the Moon

with a German Focke-Wulf Fw.190 fighter in its claws. The front fairings and spinners are red, like all the aircraft of the 9th GIAP at that time

inside the Kremlin of Nizhny Novgorod / Russia

Hero of the Soviet Union, Guards Major Sultan Amet-Khan in the cockpit of a La-7 fighter. 9th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment.