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Red Army soldiers of the Western Front at a captured German Henschel Henschel Hs 126 reconnaissance aircraft. The aircraft was shot down and captured by personnel of the 467th Rifle Regiment of the 102nd Rifle Division. The wing code "C2+BP" identifies the aircraft from 6.(H)/Aufkl.Gr. 41 (6th Squadron, 41st Reconnaissance Group. It was shot down by anti-aircraft artillery, most probably in the vicinity of Stary Dovsk (according to German data it was wrongly indicated as Starodub), 11 July 1941.
Uploaded 14 June 2026
Photo details
- Status
- Approved
- Context
- Field / Unknown location
- Date taken
- 11 July 1941(AI estimate)
- Operation
- Operation Barbarossaยท Eastern FrontAI
- Location
- Smolensk, Eastern Front 1941
- Coordinates
- 52.50000, 32.50000
- Source
- Pavel Troshkin
- License
- Public domain / no rights reserved
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