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Title: The Il-2 Shturmovik--Anna flew 260 combat missions, how about you?
Post by: Brooke on October 07, 2009, 06:33:45 PM: Anna Yegorova flew 260 combat missions in the Il-2.

Are there any AH pilots brave enough to fly a dozen Il-2 missions in the upcoming Red Storm scenario?

(http://electraforge.com/brooke/misc/aces_high/il2Animated.gif)

There are thousands of people who fly in Aces High. Do there exist a brave 10 of you who will step forward?

Come register today: http://ahevents.org/scenario_registration.html

Dates and times for the action are here: http://ahevents.org/pacific-theatre/current-or-next-scenario.html

Who is with us? :salute :aok
Title: Re: The Il-2 Shturmovik--Anna flew 260 combat missions, how about you?
Post by: EskimoJoe on October 07, 2009, 11:05:43 PM: Silly reds, your funny little Sturmivoks won't stand a chance against our 110s!
Title: Re: The Il-2 Shturmovik--Anna flew 260 combat missions, how about you?
Post by: Brooke on October 08, 2009, 12:07:16 AM: he says, with a nervous laugh.
Title: Re: The Il-2 Shturmovik--Anna flew 260 combat missions, how about you?
Post by: EskimoJoe on October 08, 2009, 01:52:17 AM: In all seriousness, best of luck to the Russian Forces.

:salute
Title: Re: The Il-2 Shturmovik--Anna flew 260 combat missions, how about you?
Post by: Have on October 08, 2009, 02:27:22 AM: Now is your chance to join these fine men flying at treetop height head to head against the enemy's finest armored units. Extremely brave men :salute

(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_OI5hvlr7EqA/Ss2TPLmeehI/AAAAAAAABrU/fVEIMmyBKls/air_il2_4.jpg)

(http://lh3.ggpht.com/_OI5hvlr7EqA/Ss2TPaywB2I/AAAAAAAABrY/JimvsikRqvk/s720/air_il2_5.jpg)

(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_OI5hvlr7EqA/Ss2TPSa243I/AAAAAAAABrc/jZV--CFd9OE/s640/1944_il-2_crew_pilot_leutnant_w_t_aleksuchin_gunner_a_d_gamajunow_summer_1944.jpg)

(http://lh3.ggpht.com/_OI5hvlr7EqA/Ss2TPlK_suI/AAAAAAAABrg/TL0LzefdEm8/exp041_13.jpg)

(http://lh3.ggpht.com/_OI5hvlr7EqA/Ss2TPnpzPxI/AAAAAAAABrk/MWre74mp9Ys/exp041_14.jpg)

(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_OI5hvlr7EqA/Ss2TXuRoVNI/AAAAAAAABro/VNfBYb8mJdU/s800/il2line.jpg)

(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_OI5hvlr7EqA/Ss2TXtv6bnI/AAAAAAAABrs/M3ThyAJwAL0/il-2.jpg)

(http://lh3.ggpht.com/_OI5hvlr7EqA/Ss2TX1BW9DI/AAAAAAAABrw/ygXiL4CiZJs/sturmovka.jpg)

Join Red Storm today!
http://ahevents.org/pacific-theatre/current-or-next-scenario-2.html (http://ahevents.org/pacific-theatre/current-or-next-scenario-2.html)
:aok
Title: Re: The Il-2 Shturmovik--Anna flew 260 combat missions, how about you?
Post by: Strip on October 08, 2009, 10:38:07 AM: Wasn't Anna shot down while being engaged by five to ten 109 G-?'s?

In any event there were/are few women that could match her.....

:salute
Title: Re: The Il-2 Shturmovik--Anna flew 260 combat missions, how about you?
Post by: Rich46yo on October 08, 2009, 11:42:16 AM: Quote from: Have on October 08, 2009, 02:27:22 AM
Now is your chance to join these fine men flying at treetop height head to head against the enemy's finest armored units. Extremely brave men :salute

BEGIN QUOTE:

YOU HAVE LET DOWN OUR COUNTRY AND OUR RED ARMY. YOU HAVE NOT MANUFACTURED IL-2S UNTIL NOW. THE IL-2 AIRCRAFT ARE NECESSARY FOR OUR RED ARMY NOW, LIKE AIR, LIKE BREAD. SHENKMAN BUILDS PRODUCES ONE IL-2 A DAY AND TRETIAKOV BUILDS ONE OR TWO MIG-3S DAILY. IT A MOCKERY OF OUR COUNTRY AND THE RED ARMY. I ASK YOU NOT TO TRY THE GOVERNMENT'S PATIENCE, AND DEMAND THAT YOU MANUFACTURE MORE ILS. I WARN YOU FOR THE LAST TIME. STALIN.

END QUOTE
Title: Re: The Il-2 Shturmovik--Anna flew 260 combat missions, how about you?
Post by: Brooke on October 08, 2009, 08:02:55 PM: Rich, I take it from your avatar that you are one of the brave Il-2 pilots? If so, well done -- you have risen above the sea of complacency! :salute
Title: Re: The Il-2 Shturmovik--Anna flew 260 combat missions, how about you?
Post by: Brooke on October 08, 2009, 08:11:01 PM: Folks, the Il-2 has electrolytes. Get yours today! :aok
Title: Re: The Il-2 Shturmovik--Anna flew 260 combat missions, how about you?
Post by: Have on October 09, 2009, 01:41:05 AM: Hey all, check out this IL-2 action from previous Stalin's Fourth scenario http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZbpE8IvqN8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZbpE8IvqN8)

These aircrafts will be at the very center of the battle in this scenario and will be playing a significant role in the Allied actions. Join now and you'll be feeling the adrenalin rush as you start strafing enemy positions at 230 mph, 400 feet above the German countryside, guns blazing and bombs blasting. Hunting enemy panzers, weaving your plane among the trees as you dodge the enemy anti-aircraft fire and seeing friendly fighters engaging enemy aircrafts all around you.

This is just a small glimpse to the life of an IL-2 pilot. It is an scenario experience you can tell your grandkids about :aok
Title: Re: The Il-2 Shturmovik--Anna flew 260 combat missions, how about you?
Post by: Karnak on October 09, 2009, 01:46:58 AM: Quote from: Strip on October 08, 2009, 10:38:07 AM
Wasn't Anna shot down while being engaged by five to ten 109 G-?'s?

In any event there were/are few women that could match her.....

:salute
No, she was shot down by ground fire as I recall. It killed her rear gunner and set her Il-2 on fire, she rolled it inverted and bailed but was too low for her chute to open completely and she was badly injured. The Germans captured her and the Russians were very suspicious of her after she was freed as the NKVD basically considered anybody who was captured a traitor. That was after flying 260 ground attack missions, probable the most dangerous job for combat aircraft in WWII by a fair margin. She got her "posthumous" Hero of the Soviet Union reinstated long after the war. 1960s or 1980s I think.
Title: Re: The Il-2 Shturmovik--Anna flew 260 combat missions, how about you?
Post by: sirvlad on October 09, 2009, 08:57:09 AM: Great photos would also like to hear more of her story.
Title: Re: The Il-2 Shturmovik--Anna flew 260 combat missions, how about you?
Post by: Wreked on October 09, 2009, 09:43:41 AM: Quote from: EskimoJoe on October 07, 2009, 11:05:43 PM
Silly reds, your funny little Sturmivoks won't stand a chance against our 110s!

<burp> Send more Bf110's please!! :lol

cheers eh! :D
Title: Re: The Il-2 Shturmovik--Anna flew 260 combat missions, how about you?
Post by: GuyNoir on October 09, 2009, 11:44:46 AM: Here's Anna in 2007 at age 90:

(http://i35.tinypic.com/15gqma9.jpg)

Apparently she's still going strong today...

Looking around, I found out that she was saved in the German prison camp by Georgy Sinyakov, a Russian doctor that apparently did a lot of amazing things for a lot of people:
http://english.pravda.ru/society/stories/17-04-2003/2591-prisoner-0

:salute
Title: Re: The Il-2 Shturmovik--Anna flew 260 combat missions, how about you?
Post by: Rich46yo on October 09, 2009, 12:18:00 PM: Quote from: Brooke on October 08, 2009, 08:02:55 PM
Rich, I take it from your avatar that you are one of the brave Il-2 pilots? If so, well done -- you have risen above the sea of complacency! :salute

Ya, some may say I spend a bit of time in them.

I'd love to join the commie Horde in spanking the bloody Hun Fascists but I dont get home from work until after it starts and I only have one Sat. off during the recreation. Otherwise I'd love to join in.

Imagine getting that teletype from Stalin? Im not sure exactly how it impacted IL2 production at that factory but for sure I'll bet it motivated the head manager. :D
Title: Re: The Il-2 Shturmovik--Anna flew 260 combat missions, how about you?
Post by: Anaxogoras on October 09, 2009, 12:21:08 PM: We should have PNG'd forum members ride as Il-2 tail gunners.
Title: Re: The Il-2 Shturmovik--Anna flew 260 combat missions, how about you?
Post by: Karnak on October 09, 2009, 12:43:49 PM: Quote from: Anaxogoras on October 09, 2009, 12:21:08 PM
We should have PNG'd forum members ride as Il-2 tail gunners.
The research I've seen so far says that the tail gun position was not used as a punishment duty, so far as they have been able to establish.
Title: Re: The Il-2 Shturmovik--Anna flew 260 combat missions, how about you?
Post by: Anaxogoras on October 09, 2009, 01:19:05 PM: Yeah, I know, but I just like the idea. :P
Title: Re: The Il-2 Shturmovik--Anna flew 260 combat missions, how about you?
Post by: Brooke on October 09, 2009, 06:56:35 PM: 260 missions, folks. How about just 10 of you AH wonders stepping up for 3% as many?
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Yegorova.jpg) (http://i35.tinypic.com/15gqma9.jpg)
Title: Re: The Il-2 Shturmovik--Anna flew 260 combat missions, how about you?
Post by: Brooke on October 10, 2009, 06:03:44 PM: OK, we need only 5 more Il-2 pilots.

Just 5! There must be 5 more such heroes out there, right? :aok
Title: Re: The Il-2 Shturmovik--Anna flew 260 combat missions, how about you?
Post by: Brooke on October 11, 2009, 06:53:17 PM: Only 4 more Il-2 pilots needed.

For more Heroes of the Motherland to step forth -- I know that you are out there! :aok