already at the age of 16, that is, the thirty-sixth year , alexander molodchiy made his first flightsflamer in 1938 with the rank of junior lieutenant. he graduated from the well-known forge of flight personnel throughout the country, entered the city military school of pilots named after the proletariat of donbass during the years of the great patriotic dairy mastered three types of aircraft ep-2, il-4 and received under lend-lease by the american b-25 on his own initiative. he began to fly with an increased bomb load, most of the crews did not fly like that, and he even took off with two half a ton imagines and even made a special device, but removed the limiter from the elevators, in order to undermine the plane more sharply, changed a little there due to some internal reserves and its centering. even lyoshin himself lay down to them, the regiment examined. it's so restrained. he had a negative attitude towards the overload of the aircraft , but he did not say anything so restrained, 194. 0.000 soviet long-range aircraft only about 300 remained in service. all because at first the

only 23 years old long-range pilot and already twice hero of the soviet union, his name is alexander molodchiy. the first star of the hero. he received in the fourth month of the war, the second in december forty-two, then he became the first twice hero of the soviet union among long-range aviation pilots in just the years of the war. the title of twice hero of the soviet union was received by 107 people, more than half of them were combat pilots, according to the russian ministry of defense in 1991, by the time of the collapse of the ussr , there were almost 13,000 heroes of the soviet union in the country, of which more than 11,000 received their gold stars. years of the great patriotic war , including 227 natives of donbass, two of them became heroes twice, people of completely different military professions and the ranks of artillerymen and tankers pilots and paratroopers soldiers and sergeants officers and generals united without exemplary courage and high representation of military duty to their homeland about the fate of the twice hero of the soviet union alexander bolotchev in the stor