P-39 Airacobra - Aleksandr Pokryshkin

Aleksandr Pokryshkin was the great pilot and tactician of the Soviet Air Force 560 combat missions, 156 air fights, Official score: 59 enemy aircraft shot down personally, and 6 together with other pilots in World War II
Note: based on Pokryshkin's memoirs and personal notebooks, his score stands above 100. The Soviet air force did not officially confirm kills whose wreckage could not be found, thus many aircraft shot down over enemy territory were never confirmed. Pokryshkin, as most other Soviet aces, also engaged in the common practice of giving his kills to fallen comrades. Each kill was rewarded with a substantial monetary bonus, and on of the day of a pilot's death all regiment kills would often be credited to him in order to give his family some support. Note that the vast majority of Pokryshkin's kills have been scored before 1943, and since the summer of 1944 he had been forbidden to engage in air combat completely.
...The usual nickname for the well-loved Airacobra in the Soviet Air Force was Kobrushka, "little cobra", or Kobrastochka, a portmanteau of Kobra and Lastochka (swallow), "dear little cobra" :-)

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