POLIKARPOV PO-2
“THE ‘NIGHT WITCHES’ FLEW SORTIES AGAINST GERMAN REAR AREAS FROM THE BATTLE OF STALINGRAD ALL THE WAY THROUGH TO THE BATTLE OF BERLIN”
Designed in the 1920s as a general purpose trainer, crop duster and light transport aircraft, the Polikarpov U-2 (later reclassified the Po-2) saw distinguished service during World War II. It was old, basic and slow, but it found a niche as a reconnaissance and communications aircraft, while some models were fitted out
