Mikhail Baranov

Mikhail Dmitrijewicz Baranov (Russian: Mikhail Dmitriyevich Bashnov, born on October 21, 1921 in the village of Gorki in the Leningrad region, died on January 17, 1943) - Soviet military airman, Hero of the Soviet Union (1942). Curriculum vitae

In 1937 he graduated from an incomplete high school, and in 1938 an aeroclub, he worked as a turner at a factory in Leningrad. From 1939 he served in the Red Army, in 1940 he graduated from the military airforce school of pilots, in May 1941 he became the commander of the key in the hunting regiment of the air, from June 1941 he took part in the war with Germany. He fought on the Southern Front, until October 1941 he destroyed five enemy aircraft, on November 8, 1941, he struck two German planes in air combat, in February 1942 he became the deputy squadron commander. By June 1942, he made 176 combat flights and knocked down 20 enemy aircraft. On August 6, 1942, during an air combat, his plane collided with a German plane; Baranov managed to jump on parachute, but he injured his leg and spine and went to hospital. when in January 1943 he recovered and made a test flight, during which the plane crashed and crashed, and the pilot died. In total, during the war he made 285 combat flights, in 85 air battles he dropped 31 enemy aircraft in person and 28 in the group, besides he destroyed 6 aircraft at airports. Honors Bibliography

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