Polikarpov I-16 Ace: Lev 'Sokol' Shestakov 0122 stones or a sling

stones or a sling

Queen of the Iceni will soon be making her way onto battlefields at the head of your Celt army in all her haughty and defiant glory

codenamed ‘Xylophone’

There were two heavy cavalry brigades

this was one of the more distinctive vehicles used by any side during the war

Polikarpov I-16 Ace: Lev 'Sokol' Shestakov 0122 stones or a slingShestakov graduated from military college in 1936 and immediately applied for service in Spain, joining a Republican fighter squadron, where he claimed eight solo victories and 31 shared victories in 90 sorties in his I 16. At the start of Operation Barbarossa, Shestakov found himself on the Odessa front, where his regiment mauled the German and Romanian opposition, scoring 96 victories between all the pilots. Towards the end of the war, Shestakov