Sergey Gritsevets
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Sergey Ivanovich Gritsevets was a Soviet major and pilot who was twice awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.
Сергей Иванович Грицевец
Yakov Smushkevich
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Yakov Vladimirovich Smushkevich was the Commander of the Soviet Air Forces from 1939 to 1940 and the first Jewish Hero of the Soviet Union. Arrested shortly before the start of Operation Barbarossa on
Sergey Gritsevets
…Gritsevets was sent to Mongolia to command a fighter aviation regiment in Mongolia. Many other experienced Soviet pilots, including Grigory Kravchenko, Yakov Smushkevich, and Sergey Denisov were also deployed to Khalkhin Gol to provide assistance to the Mongolian People's Army Air Force, which had been crippled by NKVD…
Yakov Smushkevich