77th FS 7th Air Force в ПВО МОСКВЫ???

[Charlie]

Как-то фантастично звучит..
Прошу делится информацией и сдерживать эмоции.
Вдруг правда?:confused:
Вдруг я один об этом не знал?

Там есть и фотографии этих американских пилотов 7-ого крыла генерала Гриффина. Прошу к информации отностись серьезно

[Old_Pepper]

Там есть и фотографии этих американских пилотов

Ну , сфотографироваться и я могу. И подписать потом всё, что угодно.

[Charlie]

Чем дальше в лес, тем больше дров:

The Triple 7’s also flew several escort missions for Soviet IL-2 Sturmoviks. The American pilots were fascinated by the tough and deadly ground attack aircraft. They were amazed at the level of destruction* they* wrought* on* the battlefield.

........The combat record of the Triple 7's is very impressive. In approximately 39 months of combat service and 6 combat tours, pilots of the 77th racked up 293 confirmed air to air kills and hundreds of enemy tanks and vehicles destroyed. The brutal air combat over the vast Russian and Ukrainian landscape took its toll. Roughly a third of all the AVG*pilots*never*came*home.

Unfortunately, their exploits were largely unknown to Americans back home or the rest of the world due to the tight control of information by Stalin’s government.* Only rumors and intercepted radio messages hinted at their existence.

Не только воевали, но и медали заслужили! Правда чтобы получить медали пришлось дожить до Путина...

The legacy of the Triple 7’s was lost in the forty year chill of the Cold War, but in the 1990’s old Soviet archives were finally opened and documents once thought destroyed were released to the public. It was only after this that a full accounting of the Triple 7’s accomplishments could finally be made. Ironically, many Triple 7 pilots were awarded Hero of the Soviet Union medals during the war by soviet Commanders, but Stalin ordered the medals not be given out. He insisted they be given to “brave communist” pilots instead.

In June 2001, as a gesture of good will, Russian president Vladimir Putin surprised newly elected U.S. President George W. Bush with the long forgotten medals and asked him to give them to any surviving members of the AVG, their widows or grandchildren. President Bush passed the medals on to the Pentagon which did just that. Many of the family members of Triple 7 pilots were unaware that their father or grandfather had even been to Russia, let alone fought the Germans.