Viktor Wassiljewitsch Talalichin
Viktor Wassiljewitsch Talalichin ( Russian Виктор Васильевич Талалихин ; born September 18, 1918 in Teplowka near Saratov , † October 27, 1941 near Podolsk ) was a Soviet fighter pilot .
Life
Talalichin joined the Red Army in 1937 and graduated from the Borisoglebsk Military Aviation School in 1939 . In the same year he was promoted to lieutenant. He took part in the Soviet-Finnish winter war of 1939/40 and completed 47 combat flights, for which he was awarded the Order of the Red Star . During the German invasion of the Soviet Union , Talalichin was chain commander in the 177th fighter pilot regiment of the PWO (air defense), but soon rose to the position of deputy squadron leader. He became known when he was the first pilot in the Great Patriotic War to ram an enemy aircraft at night on the night of August 6th, 1941 . Talalichin was one of the air attacks on Moscow used for the defense of Moscow and with an I-16 started, a approaching He 111 - bomber formation trap. At an altitude of 4,500 meters he made out a He 111, but fired all of his ammunition on six approaches, and was wounded on the right arm by the enemy defensive fire. He then brought the bomber to crash by ramming it and jumped out of its no longer maneuverable machine. After about 800 meters of free fall, he operated the parachute.
The heroic deed was exploited for propaganda purposes and Talalichin received the title Hero of the Soviet Union for it on August 8, 1941 . In the next time he continued to fly missions to defend Moscow and was able to shoot down five more aircraft. Talalichin was killed in an aerial battle on October 27 and was buried in Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery. In total, Talalichin carried out 107 enemy flights (47 during the Winter War and 60 during the German-Soviet War) and won 10 aerial victories (4 in the Winter War and 6 in the German-Soviet War).
In 1960 a memorial was erected for him in his birthplace.
literature
- Wilfried Copenhagen : Lexicon Soviet Aviation . Elbe-Dnjepr, Klitzschen 2007, ISBN 978-3-933395-90-0 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Талалихин Виктор Васильевич. Retrieved June 12, 2017 (Russian, WW Talalichin on warheroes.ru).
- ^ Wilfried Copenhagen: Soviet fighter planes . Transpress, Berlin 1985, p. 34 ("The ramming as an extraordinary weapon").
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Talalichin, Viktor Wassiljewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Талалихин, Виктор Васильевич (Russian spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | soviet pilot |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 18, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Teplowka |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 27, 1941 |
| Place of death | Podolsk |