• Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik
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    Airplane is painted overall with green primer paint; the forward fuselage is covered with heavy armor plate over a metal framework and the aft fuselage is made entirely of wood; this a two-seat aircraft equipped with two (2) 23 mm cannon and two (2) 7.62 mm machine guns mounted in the wings one 12.7 mm UBT machine gun mounted in the rear cockpit and operated by the gunner.

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Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

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06/23/2009

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Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

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Aircraft; Aviation; Military; World War II

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