Aleksandr Pokryshkin was one of the leading fighter pilots of World War II, Marshal of Soviet aviation and the first and only pilot to be awarded Hero of the Soviet Union during the war. He made a total of 650 sorties, participated in 139 air battles, and has an official record of 59 downed enemy planes.With the beginning of the attack on the Soviet Union, he became a fighter pilot. He proved himself in the air battles. Many of them, he flew on the American Bell P-39 Airacobra, which were left by the Americans under the lend-lease agreement in large numbers for the Soviet pilots. His first victory he achieved in 1941 with a MiG-3 over a Bf-109E. From 560 flights Pokryschkin scored 59 victories, 48 of them on the Bell P-39. This made Pokryschkin the second most successful Allied pilot (after Ivan Koschedub) in the Second World War. These achievements earned him three times the award "Hero of the Soviet Union". Pokryschkin was an important role model for successful Soviet fighter pilots with his developed attacking tactics "high-speed-maneuver-fire," and wrote three books, one of which - "heaven of the war" - has been translated into German in 1974.
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