ALEXEJ

=69.GIAP=ALEXEJ
Rank:
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Starshiy Leytenant
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Qualifications:
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Shap_Carrier

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Campaigns:
This is the medal of participants of our Stalingrad campaign.
Badge of the Stalingrad Campaign
Medal of the
Stalingrad Campaign
This is the medal of participants of our Crimea campaign.
Badge of the Crimea Campaign
Medal of the
Crimea Campaign
This is the medal of participants of our SCW campaign.
Badge of the Spainish Civil War Campaign
Medal of the
SCW Campaign
This is the medal of participants of our Italo-Greek campaign.
Badge of the Italo-Greek-War 1940 Campaign
Medal of the
Italo-Greek-War 1940 Campaign
This is the medal of participants of our Java campaign.
Badge of the Java Campaign
Medal of the
Java Campaign
This is the medal of participants of our Holland campaign.
Badge of the Holland Campaign
Medal of the
Holland Campaign
This is the medal of participants of our Korea campaign.
Badge of the Korea Campaign
Medal for the Korean Unification Campaign
This is the medal of participants of our Kiev campaign.
Badge of the Kiev Campaign
Medal for the Kiev Campaign
This is the medal of the Barcelona campaign.
Badge of the Holland Campaign
Medal for the Barcelona Campaign
This is the medal of participants of our Korea UN campaign.
Badge of the Korea UN Campaign
Medal for the Korean UN Campaign

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ALEXEJ's Medals:
Order of the Red Star

Order of the Red Star

ALEXEJ was awarded the Order of the Red Star for his initial success during a sortie.
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Medal of Nakhimov

Medal of Nakhimov

ALEXEJ was awarded the Medal of Nakhimov for successful completion of the Yap Advanced Carrier Training.
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Voroshilov Marksman Badge 2nd Level

Voroshilov Marksman Badge 2nd Level

ALEXEJ was awarded the Voroshilov Marksman Badge 2nd Level for passing the Defensive Gunnery Training #4.
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Order of the Patriotic War 2nd Class

Order of the Patriotic War 2nd Class

ALEXEJ was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War for 5 bomber sorties within one persona.
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Order of the Red Banner

Order of the Red Banner

ALEXEJ was awarded the Order of Red Banner for killing 2000 points worth of enemy ground targets.
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Order of the Red Banner

Order of the Red Banner

ALEXEJ was awarded the Order of Red Banner for 8 bomber sorties within one persona.
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Order of Lenin

Order of Lenin

ALEXEJ was awarded the Order of Lenin for 12 bomber sorties within one persona.
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Gold Star of a "Hero of the Soviet Union"

Hero of the Soviet Union Gold Star

ALEXEJ was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union Gold Star for 12 bomber sorties within one persona.

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ALEXEJ's Story:
Alexej - was born as Aljosha Baatarsaikhan Ochir at Kyakhta, a little border town southeast of Irkutsk in the late 1910s. The exact date is unknown.

His uncle Delgernandjil lived about 100km away in the south - the northern border of Mongolia - was his big idol as he was one of the finest horse riders in the area.

Being the son of a Sheppard there was not much for him to do apart from taking care of the families sheep, goats and horses. Which although not boring, was everyday the same.
Alexej was growing up & began to learn from his uncle how to race the horses, but the speed wasn't enough for him, he wanted more!

Soon he became aware of the first motorcycles, crazy, unstable fast things with brakes that didn’t work half the time…but he loved them! Then the Russo-Japanese War broke out in 1938, that’s where he saw his first aircraft & they looked fast & dangerous!
 

Fascinated by the pure speed of this gracious iron birds he took part in a Soviet VVS voluntary program which offered him the opportunity to learn to fly...
...and of course, a lifelong bound to the military, which was written in very small letters on the other side of the contract that nobody reads.

Alexej was not a very good learner, nor a natural gifted pilot. He crashed three I-15s and a new I-16, before he was banned from going anywhere near any fighter aircraft.

Thanks to a good contact, a female officer of the NVKD Alexej was transferred to a punishment  ‘Penal Squad’ named =69.PIAP= The XO of this squadron was a shortsighted, deaf in one ear crazy Cossack, who could barely read or write & always stunk off Vodka. He quickly mistook the "P" for penal for a "G" for Guards - which explains, that the =69.GIAP= is not listed in official soviet documents.

Thanks to his good contacts with the NVKD officer, who also had very good contacts in higher places, Alexej was placed as KE (Komandir Eskadrillya–Squadron Commander) for the new to be formed Bomber (Gbap) Section, as no one else had the appetite nor intention to fly in this boring slow aircraft, high above the enemy skies and dropping  bombs with pinpoint accuracy on our enemies infrastructure & specific targets.

Here he was given a sturdy aircraft, heavily loaded with bombs, lots of tables & charts and a bombsight, which he found easy to use. This new job in the VVS was as easy & as boring as taking care of the families sheep’s and since no one else wanted to fly with him Alexej invented some tricks. First of all he ordered only females as gunners.... soon the reputation of this "love bombers" spread around the VVS and Myata, a former Military musician, quickly volunteered to teach all these new recruits ‘how to press all those buttons & levers’ in the right order!
Beside’s Alexej, Myata was the first officer within the =69.PBAP= - and together they invented other freaky things. One was called "Dive bombing" instead of staying high above the clouds & horizontal, they now began to fly vertical and deliver their bombs with a hellish speed diving down through the heavens- and as Alexej & Myata love the feeling of ‘speed’ and all those yelling girls stuck behind in the bomber, it wasn't hard to convince other members of the squadron to be their wingmen.

First members of the =69.PBAP= were Myata, Pavel, Tooz and of course Alexej himself.

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