KOLYA

=69.GIAP=KOLYA
Rank:
Badge
Starshiy Leytenant
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Qualifications:
Yapper_Wings
Shapper_Wings
Yap_Carrier
Shap_Carrier
Advance_Carrier
Defensive_Gunnery
Dive_Bomber

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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 St.Mihiel campaign.
Badge of the St.Mihiel Campaign
Medal for the St.Mihiel 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 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
This is the medal of participants of our Battle of Zoum campaign.
Badge of the Battle of Zoum Campaign
Medal for the Battle of Zoum Campaign
This is the medal of participants of our Khalkin Gol campaign.
Badge of the Battle of Zoum Campaign
Medal for the Khalkin Gol Campaign

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KOLYA's Medals:
Order of the Red Star

Order of the Red Star

KOLYA was awarded the Order of the Red Star for his first aerial kill during a sortie.
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Medal of Nakhimov

Medal of Nakhimov

KOLYA 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

KOLYA 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

Kolya was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War 2nd Class for his 3rd aerial kill during a sortie.

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Order of the Patriotic War 2nd Class

Order of the Patriotic War 2nd Class

Kolya was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War 2nd Class for his 5th bomber sortie.

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Order of the Patriotic War 1st Class

KOLYA was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War 1st Class. Again our brave Hero shows the enemy in the Kiev sector that any advance into the motherland will be dealt without pity, without remorse & that they will be severely punished for this incursion into our motherland. Kolya has achieved a tolal of 21 enemy armour,vehicles, artillery & AAA kills.
The Shap salute you for your achievements comrade!

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Order of the Red Banner

Order of the Red Banner

Kolya was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for his 8th bomber sortie during the SCW campaign.

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Order of the Red Banner

Order of the Red Banner

KOLYA was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. Comrade Kolya has bravely led & halted the enemy advance in Kiev leaving behind a pile of 21 enemy skeleton armour,vehicles, artillery & AAA, his achievements have become known even to the enemy high command which have nicknamedhim the 'Moustache monster'!
The Shap salute you for your achievements comrade!

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Hero of a Socialist Labour

Order of Suvorov 3rd Class

KOLYA was awarded the Order of Suvorov 3rd Class for your outstanding leadership, organizational ability, and perseverance leading to decisive victory in battle. Your audacious river borne assault landing staged midway into the Kiev Campaign was the key to lead our forces to victory!

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StMihiel_LegionDeHonneur_ribbon
StMihiel_LegionDeHonneur_ribbon

Legion de Honneur

Kolya was awarded the Order of the 'Legion de Honneur' for exemplary services during the St. Mihiel - WWI campaign. He achieved 4 aeiral and 9 ground kills.
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StMihiel_LegionDeHonneur_ribbon

Mongolian Wings

St. Leyt. KOLYA was awarded the Mongolian Wings during the Khalkin Gol Campaign. Flying a U-2VS biplane in mission #3 he destroyed a Type 97 Chi-Ha tank, and shortly after this his aircraft was jumped by two Ki-27 Ko enemy fighters. He managed to shoot them both down.
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KOLYA's Story:

We will be Pilots! Kolya’s story…..

we will be pilotsKolya, full name Nikolai Andreyevitch Mosenko, was born in the small village of Baryshivka, Zhitomir region, Ukraine.
He grew up a country lad, and spent time working at the local Kholkoz (Collective farm). One day, an old U2 biplane circled the field in which Kolya was working, he took off his torn old shirt and waved it frantically above his head……To his immense joy, the pilot of the biplane rocked his wings in response! Kolya’s life was changed forever, he KNEW what he wanted to be. He read every book about aviation he could find in the Zhitomir town library, and on his days off, he would watch planes at the local airfield. He soon joined the “OSOAVIAKHIM” organisation, and here through sheer determination he qualified for basic flight training.

The dastardly attack on our beloved Motherland led Kolya’s flying career in a new direction….flying training at the Kiev Military District airfield. Kolya had a talent for low-level flying, he was not afraid of heights, but watching roofs and telegraph poles whizzing by seemed so much more FUN! If he could deal out destruction to the hated invaders at the same time, so much the better! Kolya’s control-tower flybys became the subject of betting…..

Once Kolya finished his training, he had the good luck to be assigned to the 69th GIAP, a unit whose reputation was legendary (Among the local drinking establishments,anyway)

Here he was also able to indulge his passion for singing and music.

His morale-raising concerts became popular…..

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The singing-lessons amused everybody!
kolya singing

Kolya became Kommandir Eskadrillya (K/E) of the GShAP section of the 69th and his “trademark” was a music score on the side of his aircraft.

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