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...flyer named Pokryshkin roared head on at a slim-bodied Junkers, shot upward, swerved right, then banked sharply, with his guns blazing. The German bomber fluttered down, trailing smoke. At a Red Air Force headquarters, a 35th digit was marked against the name of Major Alexander Pokryshkin. Across the breadth of Russia, men & women grinned and muttered: "Molodets paren"-atta boy. For to them, Alexander Pokryshkin is one of the war's top air heroes...
...Hero Pokryshkin worked his way from the ground: he began as a mechanic at an airfield, shifted to an aircraft factory, took up flight training. On his blouse glisten the Gold Star of a Hero of the Soviet Union, three other Soviet orders, the U.S. Distinguished Service Medal...