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Aleksandr Ivanovich Pokryshkin was a great fighter pilot of the Soviet Air Force during the WWII. Pokryshkin almost single-handedly fought to change the obsolete Soviet air combat tactics that were in place in 1941 when the war had started. By the end of the war, his writings had been published and distributed to all Soviet pilots, and he himself had extensively toured fighter regiments lecturing young pilots on his techniques…
Pokryshkin record includes:
- 560 combat missions.
- 156 dogfights with enemy aircrafts.
- he shut down 59 enemy airplanes himself, and 6 with other pilots.*

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