Soviet Forces

Soviet Ace La-7

G. Petrov

First officially captioned as 'an La-7 of an unidentified Guards regiment on the Baltic Front, 1944'. Based on the typical white nose marking this is probably the personal mount of a soviet ace, two times winner of the HSU who ended the war with a final tally of 34 individual and 19 shared kills, his name? Believe it or not, it was Zaitsev, Vasilii Aleksandrovich Zaitev, deputy commander of 11 GIAD.