User:Reguyla\Alexandr Fedorovich Vasko

Alexandr Fedorovich Vasko (29 August 1920 in Vaska - 23 August 2004) was a Soviet pilot in the Soviet Air Force during World War II. Aleksandr Vasko was born in August 29, 1920 the village of Vaski village in the Poltava region in a peasant family, he made his primary education until 1936 before starting to work as a motor repairer. He joined the Red Army in 1940 and makes his pilot training at the School of the Air in 1941 Chuguyevskuyu. He participated in the war in the East from the German invasion of June 1941 in the 171 IAP. In October 1941, he participated in the defense of Tula and summer of 1942, he fought in the vicinity of Leningrad. In January 1943, the regiment was transferred to the front of Bryansk. During the summer of 1943, he took part in the Battle of Kursk before returning in the fall on the front of Bryansk. In 1944 Lieutenant Vasko is transferred to the 19 IAP. In September, this unit becomes the 176 IAP Gu and team of new fighter La-7. With this machine, he participated in the campaign on the 1st Ukrainian front and fight over Poland. Towards the end of the war, while the Regiment fought on the first front Belarus, Lt Vasko totaling 303 combat missions, 49 fights, 15 wins and 2 individual collective victories. On 17 January 1945, 24 commitments, the pilots of the 16th Air Force claiming 18 Soviet aircraft shot down. Among the victorious drivers is twice Hero of the Soviet Union commander of 176 IAP Gu, Major Kozhedub and Vasko Lieutenant. Equally violent fights take place in spring 1945. On 22 and 23 March 1945, the 16th Army of the drivers committed 117 fights and claiming 110 enemy aircraft, Vasko part of drivers who win victories. The April 18, 1945, 162 commitments were taking place with 151 aircraft claimed 2 for Vasko. Aleksandr Fedorovich postwar Vasko continues to serve in the VVS. On May 15, 1946, he was raised to the rank of Hero of the Soviet Union. He will then take part in the War of Korea, winning three more victories during the conflict. In total, in two wars, it will have accomplished 487 war missions, participated in 109 fights and shot down or co-20 aircraft. After the Korean War, he made a move to the Military Academy in 1956 and from 1960 he served as a Reserve Colonel and lives in Poltava.

Awards

 * Hero of the Soviet Union on 15 May 1946


 * Order of Lenin


 * Order of the Red Banner (3 times)


 * Order of the Patriotic War 1st and 2nd Class (2 times)


 * Order of the Red Star


 * Medal "For Courage"


 * Medal of Zhukov


 * Medal for Battle Merit


 * Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"


 * Medal "For the Defence of Moscow"


 * Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"


 * Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"


 * Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"


 * Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"


 * Medal "For the Victory over Japan"


 * Medal "For the Capture of Berlin"


 * Medal "Veteran of Labour"


 * Jubilee Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy"


 * Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"


 * Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"


 * Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"


 * Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"


 * Medal "For Impeccable Service"


 * Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky


 * Defender of the Motherland Medal