Word: rivenshstein
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...have met Red airmen, and they are good. At Stalingrad our boat took aboard 100 or so pilots and mechanics who had just been in action at Voronezh. They were members of a famous Stormovik group commanded by Colonel Boris Rivenshstein, one of the Soviet Union's greatest airmen...
...Rivenshstein visited our cabin to practice his English and play phonograph records. He is 32, handsome and blue-eyed. He has been flying since he was 17 and has a handshake like Joe Louis'. Stalin has received him three times. His group, fighting almost continuously on the Moscow, Kalinin, Orel and Voronezh fronts, has shot down about 200 German planes, and in six attacks recently destroyed 167 planes on the ground. The group has lost 20 Russian planes and 13 pilots. "Twenty for one is a good enough average," Boris says with smiling eyes and a slap...
...high morale of Colonel Rivenshstein's group unfortunately does not alter the fact, attested by Moscow communiques and dispatches, that the German air force has had decisive numerical superiority on the southern front. A local exception to this rule was the Voronezh sector...
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