IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik is ...
Since his childhood, Randy Malmstrom has had a passion for aviation history and historic military aircraft in particular. He ...
Nicknamed “The Flying Tank,” the Il-2 Sturmovik was the Soviet Union’s most feared ground-attack aircraft in WWII. First deployed in 1941, its armored design allowed it to survive fierce enemy fire.