The crew of senior Lieutenant Mikhail Batovskaya after returning from a combat sortie in front of his damaged PE-2R.
9 October 1942 the crew of M. Batovskaya on the plane PE-2R flew to the next mission in the district Yartseva the Smolensk region and on his return "pawn" was fired on by antiaircraft artillery and received a direct hit on the propeller, which tore along with a motor reducer. At this point, from the front line crew was separated by nearly 100 km. Batovskaya managed to keep a heavily damaged plane in the air and after an hour and a quarter put him on its airfield. Pictured left to right: gunner senior Sergeant Yakovlev Nikita Hrysanovych (1922-1942), commander of 11-th ORP Lieutenant Batovskaya Michael Fillipovich (1917-1942), Navigator level senior Lieutenant Shamin Mamontov (1919-1942).
The crew of the M. Batovskaya not returned from the next sortie on 9 November 1942, three days after signed the order on rewarding of the commander of the order "red banner", and the Navigator and the arrow the order of the Red Star.
