A Yak-9DD from 236 IAD photographed in Bari, Italy, in the autumn of 1944 while the unit was supporting Tito's partisans in Yugoslavia.

Yak-9 in Italy

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.

Soviet Ace La-7

A Soviet machine gun crew crosses a river along the second Baltic front, in January of 1945. The soldier on the left is holding his rifle overhead while his comrades push a floating device with a machine gun forward, followed by two men with several supply boxes. 