Black Death. Truth and myths about the combat use of the IL-2 attack aircraft

This book is devoted to one of the most famous Soviet aircraft of the Times of the Great Patriotic War - IL-2 attack aircraft. Soviet warriors and Wehrmacht soldiers have received many different - beautiful and not very - nickname: & quot, humpback & quot, & quot, flying tank & quot ,, & quot, cement bubber & quot, & quot, iron Gustav & quot, finally, & quot, black death & quot,. Being, in fact, the main shock aircraft of the Red Army Air Force, the attack aircraft was used for attacks on a wide variety of targets - from infantry, sowing in the trenches, to ships and fortified reference points.
In this book on the basis of declassified archival documents, eyewitness memories And other sources analyzed the practice of combat use of IL-2 attack aircraft, ranging from battles in Belarus in 1941, when they were only tested in battle, to the Berlin operation in April - May 1945, when the air strikes on the enemy were already applied by hundreds of armored vehicles. The authors give an answer to the questions: Li & quot, black death & quot, was unique