Soviet 51st Mine and Torpedo Air Regiment

Someone I know sent me a link to this site a while back, it includes some fantastic photographs of an attack on a German flak vessel the Niobe in a Finnish port (Kotka), the first wave missing and the second wave destroying the ship. The site can be found at:


http://www.bellabs.ru/51/Photos/Niobe-12GBAP-0.html

and

general set of pics of attack on Niobe

http://www.bellabs.ru/51/Photos/_Attack.html

equipment of the Regiment

http://www.bellabs.ru/51/Photos/_Equipment.html

events and personnel

http://www.bellabs.ru/51/Photos/_Scenes.html

scroll down for cool victory markings on bombers and uniforms of crews.

miscellaneous

http://www.bellabs.ru/51/Photos/_Misc.html

 

thanks ! very interesting pictures, looks like they flew the A-20 in at least 2 versions

 

Yeah, some beautiful pics of the markings and so on too.

 

Yea those are great thanks!!!

 

Good site Stefan ! I found this one in English and it has some good reading.

Poor guy lost his pistol in a toliet.

http://lend-lease.airforce.ru/english/articles/sterlikov/index.htm