One of the museum curators saw me taking pictures of all the aircraft (and tanks!) and so we were talking for some time. I told him that I really enjoyed photographing and finding out about old aeroplanes. With this he beckoned me to the Pe-2 and pulled down the crew entry hatch and let me view the cockpit, after which he let me see the ventral gunner's position. My head is poking through a tiny little hatch and it is awful to imagine trying to escape though it when the plane is diving and on fire.

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