Aviation in the service of medicine

Abstract

In the first period of the Great Patriotic War, a new type of aviation was created - night short-range bomber on Po-2 and R-5 aircraft. Night light crews performed numerous combat missions during the war, from bombing enemy troops and equipment, conducting reconnaissance, numerous communications flights and ending with the urgent delivery of medicines, blood, serum, evacuating the wounded from the military area and from partisan detachments operating behind enemy lines.