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Old 23rd March 2005, 21:42
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Re: Kozhedub and P-51s

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Originally Posted by Leon
This story is also described in English in M.Vestisk's book - "Lavockin La-7". Acording to the book Kozhedub was ordered by his regiment commander P. Chupikov not to talk about this incident against P-51Ds and he was given the film from the gun camera. The film is said to being made public by his wife after his death. Is it true? No idea - it may be a tale...
It's a translated fragment from the N.Bodrikhin's book 'Soviet Aces'. That book is not so bad, but based mainly on pilot's memoires, not documents . ...
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