Yak-9 Normandie-Niemen #14 2024-06-06

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Yak-9 Normandie-Niemen #14 - Yak-9 Normandie-Niemen #14

This is a "Ghost in the Machine" repaint of the ETO AvHistory Yak-9 as plane #14 flown by Frenchman Marcel Lefèvre.

In May 1944, returning from a mission over Vitebsk, Marcel Lefèvre’s Yak-9 hemorrhaged fuel and burst into flames a few feet off the ground; he died in a Moscow hospital a month later. (He survives in spirit as a host figure at the Normandie regiment museum in his home town, Les Andelys.)

The Normandie-Niemen regiment left quite a record in its wake: 5,240 missions flown, 273...

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