Ivan Kozhedub
Military Person
1920 – 1991
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Who was Ivan Kozhedub?
Marshal of Aviation Ivan Mykytovych Kozhedub was a Soviet Ukrainian 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 individual air victories, most of them flying the Lavochkin La-5. He is one of the few pilots to have shot down a Messerschmitt Me 262 jet. He was made a Hero of the Soviet Union on three occasions.
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- Born
- Jun 8, 1920
Ukraine - Ethnicity
- Ukrainians
- Nationality
- Russia
- Died
- Aug 12, 1991
Moscow
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on July 23, 2013
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