Si vis pacem, para bellum

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74 notes instahlgewittern: These two soldiers are sending a message by pigeon, which was an effective means to communicate from front to rear, and back again. However, pigeons could become confused in heavy artillery shelling and succumbed easily to lethal poison gas.
37 notes opacasilentianoctis: German He-111 bomber, shot down by a battering ram Alexei Sevastyanov.November 4, 1941 Lieutenant Sevastyanov on an airplane-153 patrolled the approaches to Leningrad. About 22.00 began flying enemy aircraft over the city. Despite the anti-aircraft artillery fire, one He-111 bomber managed to break through to Leningrad. In two unsuccessful attacks on the bomber Sevastyanov spent the entire ammunition. In order not to miss the enemy, the pilot summed up his plane back to the “Heinkel” and cut off his tail rotor. Then Sevastyanov left damaged fighter and landed by parachute. The bomber crashed in the Tauride Garden (his tail for a long time kept in the Museum of the History of Leningrad). Parachute jumping on the crew members were taken prisoner. Fallen fighter Sevastyanova was found in Baskov Lane and restored by specialists of the 1st Repair Base. Leningrad.
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