Word: pokryshkins
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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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...
...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...