POLIKARPOV PO-2
Feb 18, 2021
3 minutes
WORDS STUART HADAWAY
“THE ‘NIGHT WITCHES’ FLEW SORTIES AGAINST GERMAN REAR AREAS FROM THE BATTLE OF STALINGRAD ALL THE WAY THROUGH TO THE BATTLE OF BERLIN”
Designed in the 1920s as a general purpose trainer, crop duster and light transport aircraft, the Polikarpov U-2 (later reclassified the Po-2) saw distinguished service during World War II. It was old, basic and slow, but it found a niche as a reconnaissance and communications aircraft, while some models were fitted out
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