Кожедуб Иван Никитович

Ivan Nikitovich Kozhedub (1920–1991) was a Soviet military aviator and a World War II fighter ace. Kozhedub took a part in the Korean War as a commander of the 324th Fighter Air Division. He is credited with 64 +2 (P-51) individual air victories, most of them flying the Lavochkin La-5 – the top scoring fighter pilot on the Allied side during World War II.[2][3] He is one of the few pilots to have shot down a Messerschmitt Me 262 jet.[4] He was made a Hero of the Soviet Union on three occasions (4 February 1944; 19 August 1944; 18 August 1945). (wikipedia)