[James A Pratt III]

Note food was in short supply in the USSR in WW II/GPW period see the book "A Taste of War". I would also like to point out there were a lot of under trained RAF and USAAF aircrew thrown into combat during the 1940-43 period.
As for the IL-2 many of their gunners according to BCRS Vol 4 lacked training and some got sent there because they had done something wrong that would have got them sent to a penal battalion. The BCRS volume also talk about the lack of training of a lot of VVS aircrew.