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By Massimo Tessitori |
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| This image shows Senior Lieutnant Georgii Dimitrievich Kostylev of
3 Guards IAP of Red Banner Baltic fleet.
He was a veteran of the Winter War against Finland. On 23 October 1942 he was made Hero of the Soviet Union. He later became commander officer of the Regiment. His total score was of 14 individual plus 32 shared victories; he remained in the Navy until 1953, and died in 1960. |
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Very few is visible of his winter camouflaged LaGG-3, but the red number
35 has the same style of those seen on 44 IAP aircrafts, and this allow
to consider it as a winter variant of those aircrafts, and to extrapolate
a likely camo scheme.
It's possible that this aircraft was the same white 35 of 44 IAP appearing
on another photo, after having been delivered to another unit; the profile
is based on this hypothesis.
This aircraft could be of series 1/3 whose characteristics are:
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pointed side plates behind the exhaust stacks; |
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