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Pe-2 GUARDS UNITS
OF WORLD WAR 2
Dmitriy Khazanov and
Aleksander Medved
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Front Cover First published in Great Britain in 2013 by Osprey Publishing
In early July 1944 Soviet intelligence
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detected a large warship in the Finnish
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identified as the coastal defence ship E-mail; info@
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the Finnish Navy. In reality this vessel
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appearance and displacement to the
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from the People’missariat of the electrical, chemical, mechanical, optical, photocopying, recording or otherwise
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preparations began for a simultaneous publisher.
mass assault on the ship led by Gen
M I Samokhin of the Red Banner Air A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Forces of the Baltic Fleet. Print ISBN: 978 1 78096 065 4
This was to be an assault by four PDF e-book ISBN: 978 1 78096 066 1
air groups, consisting of 133 aircraft,
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and they were to all carry out their
bombing runs within a narrow Edited by Tony Holmes and Phil Jarrett
seven-minute window. The aircraft Cover Artwork by Mark Postlethwaite
were divided into s