Yak 3M 402 IAP

Video and Audio content is Copyright © 2018 Malcolm Auld This video and audio material may not be used in any form without written permission. “White-100” is based on a Yak-3 of 402 IAP (regiment). The 402 IAP was formed in 1941 and was staffed largely with very experienced test pilots drawn from the Scientific Testing Institute of the Air Force (VVS). During the summer of 1944 the 402 IAP received brand new Yak-3 aircraft and went into action in the Vistula-Oder and East Pommerania regions in the autumn. The 402 was at the VVS spearhead of operations in the battle over Berlin, and fought very hard and with distinction in this campaign. The 402 IAP finished the War as one of the most successful regiments in the VVS. In all, they completed 13,511 sorties in four years. The officially recognized score for the regiment was 810 enemy aircraft in aerial battles, and countless aircraft, vehicles and equipment on the ground.