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...rebuilding the Air Force, after Germany's assault had all but knocked it out, had been no one-man job. But one man shouldered the heaviest part of the burden and in Russia he gets the lion's share of the credit. He is Marshal Alexandr Alexandrovich Novikov, chief of the Red Air Force...
Moscow did not say where Novikov was last week-but he was probably steaming around, as usual, from one forward airfield to another, watching his airmen, shooting the breeze with them, cheering them on. If he had been able to do as he pleased, 42-year-old Marshal Novikov would doubtless have been flying combat missions himself. But his friend Joseph...
Stalin does not permit that. Like other top air commanders, Novikov is forbidden to take battle risks...
Designers Sergei Iliushin and Alexandr Yakovlev, both major generals and Heroes of Socialist Labor; Aleksei I. Shakhurin, the People's Commissar for the Aviation Industry; and Marshal Alexandr Novikov...
...Ankara, Stirbey talked at length with British diplomats. The Russians ignored him. Then, just before he left for Cairo, Stalin switched his instructions, had his envoy urge the Prince to call first of all on Nicholas Novikov, ranking Russian plenipotentiary in the Middle East...