Alexander Ivanovich Pokryshkin is the most loud name among the fighter pilots of the Air Force of the Red Army. Officially, he counted 59 shot down aircraft. In addition, Pokryshkin is an outstanding analyst, the creator of the new tactics and the training system for Soviet fighter pilots, the commander of the Guards Air Division. His example has no analogues in the history of World War II. Since the spring of 1943, German radio interception and alert stations have invariably warned: “Ahtung! Akhtung! Pokryshkin in the air!” And the Asas of the Luftwaffe without delay left the battle.
On August 19, 1944, Pokryshkin became the first and only hero of the Soviet Union three times during the war. In the award sheet, he is given the following characteristic: “Brave of the brave, leader, the best Soviet speaker.”
The memoirs of the Marshal of Aviation, three times the Hero of the Soviet Union A.I. Kryshkin, are one of the most striking in Russian military memoirism. They are distinguished by directness and sincerity characteristic of Pokryshkin. Bright descriptions of air fighting alternate with deep p …
Author
Pokryshkin Alexander Ivanovich
Editor
Timofeev A.V.
Artist
Ozerov I. A.
Publisher
Center Polygraph, 2010
Series
On the front line. The truth about the war
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