“I stepped from my school desk into the war,” she says. She became a combat medic and served with the Soviet forces for four years. One day, as she was helping ferry a wounded soldier across ...

The Yakovlev Yak-9 stood out as the fighter aircraft with the highest production in the Soviet Union during WWII, with an estimated 16,769 units manufactured. Fueled by a 1,650 horsepower engine ...