The statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni in Venice. A masterpiece of Andrea Verrocchio, circa 1480, wich inspired many RSI marines manifestos. DVX

Statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni

This particular IL-2 served with 46th Air Assault Regiment of the Northern Fleet and made an emergency landing on the ice covered ‘Crooked Lake’ on November 25th 1943. It was part of a group of 16 IL-2s that were part of a raid on a German airfield at Luostari. 25 Me-109’s rose to intercept them and the resulting engagement cost the Russians 11 planes and the Germans 23.

IL-2 recovered from lake in Murmansk, Russia

A German 10.5 cm leFH 18M light howitzer (still) in service with the Portuguese Army in Moçambique, 1972.