Interestingly, one of the Yak-3’s most celebrated units was the Normandie-Niémen Regiment, a Free French squadron fighting alongside the Soviets. Equipped with Yak-3s in 1944, the regiment ...

This time the harrying fire was from swarms of aircraft, including Yakovlev Yak-3 fighters flown by the Normandie-Niemen regiment of the Forces Aériennes Françaises Libres—the Free French Air ...