Ivan Kozhedub

Ivan Kozhedub
Native name	Иван Никитович Кожедуб
Nickname(s)	Батя ("Dad"), Борода ("Beard")
Born	June 8, 1920 Obrazhiyevka, Chernigov Governorate, Ukrainian SSR
Died	8 August 1991(1991-08-08) (aged 71) Moscow, Soviet Union
Allegiance	Soviet Union
Service/branch	Soviet Air Force
Years of service	1940–1985
Rank	Chief Marshal of aviation
Battles/wars	World War II, Korean War
Awards	Order of Lenin (3) Order of Red Banner (7) Order of Alexander Nevsky Order of the Great Patriotic War (2) Order of the Red Star (2)

World War II,

Chief Marshal of Aviation Ivan Kozhedub (Russian: Иван Hикитович Кожедуб; Ukrainian: Іван Микитович Кожедуб; June 8, 1920 – August 8, 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. 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 (4 February 1944; 19 August 1944; 18 August 1945).

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