Soviet pilot's widow and Bell P-39 Airacobra plane, WW2
K. Shumkova with a Lend-Lease Bell P-39 Airacobra aircraft named for her in memory of her husband, a pilot shot down by the Nazis. The plane was one of a total of 4, 719 P-39s sent to the Soviet Union for use by the Soviet air force during the Second World War
Picture No
10059769
Media ID
47232947
Size
4658px x 3206px
(1.9MB)
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library/ALEXANDER MELEDIN
Source
Unattributed photograph The Meledin Collection
Date
1940s
