Soviet Pilot Memoirs from World War II

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Soviet Pilot Memoirs from World War II

See also Soviet Pilot Memoirs for memoirs from other periods.

[edit] Fighter Pilots

[edit] Fighter Pilots on Active Duty During Operation Barbarossa

The memoirs listed in this section are all from fighter pilots who had completed training and were assigned to combat units by the start of the war, June 22, 1941, irrespective of whether they served in the border military districts or not.

Person	Memoir	Notes
Arkhipenko, Fyodr Fyodorovich	Notes of a Fighter Pilot	Arkhipenko was a junior fighter pilot with the 17th Fighter Regiment flying I-153 biplanes at the start of the war, stationed near Lutsk in what is now the north-western Ukraine
Golodnikov, Nikolai Gerasimovich	Conversations with N. Golodnivok
Gorelov, Sergei Dmitrievich	We Ourselves Sought Battle
Klimenko, Vitalii Ivanovich	I Fought in a Fighter Plane (one chapter)	Also available online at the I Remember website. Klimenko graduated from the Chuguevsk Flight School in September, 1940.
Yakimenko, Anton Dmitrievich	Cover Me, I'm Going In For the Attack!	Yakimenko fought in the Battle of Khalkhin-Gol and throughout all of World War II

See also I Fought in a Fighter Plane, which collects together interviews with eleven Soviet fighter pilots who were active in the early stages of the war.