you can also see here already 5 days after the start of the war, grigory rechkalov shot down his first and how the pilot hit him with a rocket. in the first month of the most difficult period of the rechkal war. he shot down three enemy aircraft, was wounded in the head and brought his fighter to the airfield in the leg. had three surgeries. returning to his regiment, he mastered the yak one and the mig-3. rechkalov's finest hour came when the american p-39 fighter entered his unit during the rechkal war, the aerocobribr made 450 sorties and conducted 122 air battles, according to experts, recorded 61 personal and four group victories of the rechkal in their native lands. when he was already a famous pilot, a famous hero, he came here several times during the great patriotic war, met with by their fellow villagers. he visited enterprises and handed over banners after the war. grigory andreevich continued to serve in various command positions in the air force. graduated air force academy after graduating from the service entered the faculty of journalism of moscow state university and w