| | WINGS PALETTE - MiG MiG-1/MiG-3 - USSR/Russia |
 | | Three camouflaged examples appear on 3 photos taken on March 7, 1942, when the 120th IAP of Moscow Air Defence was was made Guards as the 12th Gv.IAP; they appear only partially as background elements, but they seems to be almost identical with the exception of some details. |
 | | This profile represents a MiG-3 of 2 GSAP/VVS-SF at Vayenga airport in 1942; only four MiGs of this unit survived at the beginning of 1942, and only one was lost during 1942, set on fire after landing because of combat damages. |
 | | The remaining 3 MiGs were transferred to 255 IAP/VVS-SF where they remained in hardly serviceable conditions until mid 1943, when they were transferred ot the VVS-TOF, the Soviet Pacific Fleet, putting an end to MiG-3 service in VVS-SF. |
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