Originally posted by Tilt
I believe he had a biography written.....in Russian..... I would love to read an English translation.
He was far more interesting than Kozhedub.
Red Ant worked on translation of Pokryshkin's book. I don't know how the things are going now, it was maybe 5 years ago.
Originally posted by Tilt
I have an article which was an interview with Kozhedub where he states that he should have been credited with more like a 100 kills. He was not a modest man IMO.
Kozhedub died in 1991, and I don't know if he gave any serious interviews.
Soviet aces scores are usually lower then actual achievements. Pokryshkin's first 15 kills were "lost" when his regiment staff burned all the papers before retreat in 1941. His actual score must be something like 77 kills.
Kozhedub was not a tactic, but a "technical" dogfighter, relying on his skills and superiour airplane control.
There are legends that he scored at least 5 kills in Korea, where he was a CO of 176th GvIAP, and was prohibited to make combat flights...