Nebo Moskvy
Movie (1944)
Russian title : Небо Москвы
International title : The Moscow Sky and Moscow Skies
Starring:
Pyotr Aleynikov (Lieutenant Ilya Streltsov)
Nikolay Bogolyubov (Lieutenant colonel Balashev)
Ivan Kuznetsov (First Lieutenant Cherbina)
Nina Mazaeva (Zoya Vladimirovna)
During the air defence of Moscow in 1941, a young commisioned officer is in love for a combat medic who seems indifferent.
Barrage balloon
The first one is seen less a second, on a trolley with a single boogey; is it really a balloon ? (a tanker wouldn't be secured by a simple rope, isn't it ?)
45 minutes later, infantrymen are walking pulling this balloon under the electric wire (a trolleybus follow them) :
Undoubtly Barrage balloon :
Tupolev TB-3
In the summer of 1945, ten Tupolev TB-3s were still in service actually used only for cargo and troop transport since 1943.
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-3
alert takeoff :
Yakovlev Yak-3
An intruder: the Yak-3s weren't in the front line until the summer of 1944...
Polikarpov I-16
Seen as early as the twenty-second minute, but always in the background and masked...
... the I-16s are not properly seen until the 25th minute.
The only still shot (at 31 minutes) :
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-3 (Field Maintenance)
A V-12 liquid-cooled piston engine on transport cradle :
Polikarpov I-153
Polikarpov I-153 used to test the skill of fresh pilot :
Dornier Do 217E (model)
Some Dornier Do 217E were used for spy flight; not sure they reach the Moscow oblast...
Junkers Ju 88A
Lot of action filmed using models.
Bombs dropped, the Luftwaffe turn back to its base :
Ilya's tenacity paid off, but he too was shot down far from Soviet lines.
Unidentified Aircraft
During the fighting, three gun camera footages are used and we only guess a single-engine aircraft under fire.
The battlefield mixes both German and Soviet aircraft and military armored vehicule and battle tank, including this Unidentified Soviet Aircraft :
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-3
Heinkel He 111
Wearing the A1+ code of KG 53 (Kampfgeschwader 53 or bomber wing 53), this is a Heinkel He 111 as this unit only flew with this type.
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