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Moscow's hero worshipers fast week heard the latest: Major Alexander Pokryshkin had shot down his 59th enemy plane, was still beyond challenge, the ace of all Allied aces...
...Today Pokryshkin commands a regiment-rough equivalent of a U.S. group-in Russia's most famous fighter unit (its other aces: Richkalov, 46; Glinka, 38; Lugansky, 32; Alelyukhin...
...Pokryshkin, eloquent only when he talks flying, drinks little, eats and sleeps much. Superstitious, he will not be photographed before a flight. Six months ago he married a Red WAC at the front. On furloughs Pokryshkin goes to Moscow for a round of theaters and tourist sights (he has been seen gawking at the Moscow subway's new, resplendent stations). After the war he wants to be a plane designer...
Brother's Advice. Pokryshkin's mother still lives in Novosibirsk, with the youngest of her four sons. She is a plain old peasant woman, proud of her sons. Recently she wrote to Alexander: "Your brother [also an airman] wants to shift to your unit." Replied Alexander: "Let him prove his mettle...
...Progress. Russia's Pokryshkins did not save her, as the R.A.F. saved Britain in 1940. They could not, for in the vastness of Russia's plains the infantryman and the artilleryman bore the biggest burden. But Pokryshkin and his comrades helped to win an uphill fight for the control of Russia's skies, contributed much to this year's victories...