Презентация на тему: "Презентация по английскому языку на тему "Герои Великой Отечественной войны. Александр Иванович Покрышкин""

Alexandr Ivanovich Pokryshkin 

Alexandr Ivanovich Pokryshkin (1913-1985). Born in Novosibirsk. A son of a factory worker. Grew up in a poor part of the town.

A flight school (1939). 

Started the war in June of 1941 at the border in Moldavia. 

A prominent tactician of the Soviet Air Force. Openly criticised the official tactics that led to a huge number of victims.

Taught his pilots new tactics that he invented himself. By the end of the war, his tactics had been distributed to all Soviet pilots. "Attention! Pokryshkin is in the air!" German pilots were ordered to stay in the ground.

The second highest scoring Soviet fighter pilot in the Great Patriotic War. Scored  59 victories (over 15 not official ones).  

After the war General and later Marshal of the Soviet Air Forse. A Hero of the Soviet Union on three occasions during the war. 

Wrote several books about his wartime experiences, "Wartime Sky" his most popular book.

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