PictionID:42764858 - Title:Lavochkin LA-7 White 27, ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:   This photo taken in 1993 is of the Lavochkin LA-7, White 27 on display indoors at the Monino Museum. The La-7 was flown by the top Soviet ace of the war, Ivan Nikitovich Kozhedub. The Ukrainian-born Kozhedub, nicknamed Ivan the Terrible, a three-time Hero of Soviet Union, scored his last 17 air victories in 1945 in the La-7 numbered 27, which is now preserved in the Central Air Force Museum at Monino on the outskirts of Moscow. The last German aircraft that he shot down was the Messerschmitt Me-262, of Sergeant (German: Unteroffizier) Kurt Lange from 1./KG(J)54, over Frankfurt an der Oder on 15 February 1945. - Catalog:15_003466 - Filename:15_003466.tif - ---- Image from the Charles Daniels Photo Collection album "Monino Indoors '93" which includes images taken by Mr. Daniels when he visited the Monino Museum in 1993.----PLEASE TAG this image with any information you know about it, so that we can permanently store this data with the original image file in our Digital Asset Management System.------------SOURCE INSTITUTION: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sandiegoairandspace.org/library/stillimages.html">San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive</a>
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