Hero of the Soviet Union – Translating History

On This Date: 1942 – Soviet Fighter Pilot Rams Nazi Ju-88 to Bring it Down, His Second Such Victory That Year

On 27 December 1942, Soviet pilot Petr Shavurin downed an enemy aircraft by ramming it at an altitude of 6000 meters. It was a frosty December of 1942. The winter days were short. A blizzard raged with only brief interruptions. On December 27th, exactly five months after his ramming attack in the skies over Gorky,ContinueContinue reading “On This Date: 1942 – Soviet Fighter Pilot Rams Nazi Ju-88 to Bring it Down, His Second Such Victory That Year”