15.02.1938 First flight of Bloch MB.170-01, predecessor of Bloch MB.174/175 family, one of the best light bombers of Armee de L'Air. The MB.174A-3 was an outstanding multi-role aircraft and, had it not been for the disastrous and defeatist political and industrial environment into which it was born, it might have made a major contribution to Allied victory. Bloch MB.174
15.02.1943 Finnish pilot, Lt.H.Stromberg shot down a Polikarpov R-5 over the Maaselka Isthmus in Northwest Russia, this was the last victory for the Gloster Gladiator and the last air battle between biplanes of WW2 and possibly of the history. Gloster Gladiator Polikarpov R-5/R-Z/PR-5