Ace of Aces 5 by neiwil

Poser • Aviation • posted on Oct 04, 2011

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Ivan Mykytovych Kozhedub: Born June 8th 1920 Died August 12th 1991 Born in the village of Obrazhievka, a settlement in the Sumy region, Ukrain,the youngest of five children.Kozhedub learned to fly aircraft in the Shostkinsk aeroclub and joined the Soviet army in 1940.He graduated from the Chuguyevsk Military Air School in 1941 at the start of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, but he was retained as an instructor.Kozhedub remained at the school for two years where he trained many young Soviet pilots. Feeling his talents would be better used in combat, he requested a transfer to an operational unit and in March 1943 was posted, as a Senior Sergeant, to 240th IAP, one of the first units to receive the new Lavochkin La-5.He operated on the Voronezh Front and over the Kursk battlefields. His first kill was a Junkers Ju 87 Stuka, shot down over Pokrova on 6 July 1943.By 16 July, he had claimed eight air victories. He was promoted to Junior Lieutenant. Then his unit moved towards Kharkov.At this time, he usually flew escort for Petlyakov Pe-2 twin-engine bombers.He then served as a fighter pilot in several areas including Steppe Front,2nd Ukrainian Front,1st Belorussian Front and at different ranks, starting from senior airman up to the deputy commander of the air regiment.He claimed his 61st and 62nd victories,his final claims,over Berlin on 16 April 1945. ( All together now "Neil you plonker!"....I spent 5 hours yesterday building this and a couple of hours today doing textures.It was only while this was rendering that it occured to me, I could probably have nipped over to Osper Ent and borrowed a couple of theirs...D'oh!) LA-5FN and Bf-109F by me, Pilot is AA's workman with my Russian pilot texture.Background is Kursk region courtesy of GoogleEarth. Thanks for looking and any comments...if my posts seem thin on the ground of late, I'm sort of tied up with German X-Craft, only one of which will show up here any time soon.So I think a run of 'Aces' are on the cards for now, frequency of which will depend on available aircraft (i.e whever I have to build them or not).

Comments (17)

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warder348

2:52PM | Tue, 04 October 2011

Quite interesting Neiwil, and your post's are never thin, your just pretty much busy all the time! Love the La-5. Keep the Ace's commin!

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Penters

2:56PM | Tue, 04 October 2011

You plonker Neil!! Nah only kidding, your Lavochkin looks smart...and what's all this about X-craft? Subs or project aircraft?

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android65mar

2:57PM | Tue, 04 October 2011

Great stuff, good to see something about the soviet side of things. Great composition.

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enigma-man

3:39PM | Tue, 04 October 2011

Always good to see dialogue with an image. Good job on the series. :)

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kjer_99

4:41PM | Tue, 04 October 2011

Another ace we should all know about but often don't. Thanks for the bio and it's a great illustration for it, too. Plonker? NOT!!!!!

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jac204

8:02PM | Tue, 04 October 2011

What an interesting life he must have lead, first seeing his country win the war, then participated in the Korean War and finally would have seen the end of the Soviet Union. Thanks for the great image and narrative.

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Osper

9:24PM | Tue, 04 October 2011

Jeez, and I thought our rental and sales rates were really reasonable!!!! Looks like you "done good"! Uh....what exactly is a "Plonker". That's a new one for us in the colonies! ;)

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preeder

2:36AM | Wed, 05 October 2011

EXCELLENT AS ALWAYS MATE. Keep working on the x-craft, the more the better.

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flavia49

6:51AM | Wed, 05 October 2011

fantastic creation!

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debbielove

7:52AM | Wed, 05 October 2011

Brilliant once again, and of course another Fave! I love these because of the excellent quality of the Renders and your epic story that goes with... I look forward with extremely baited breath to the X-craft series! Oh yes! And is the Ace of Diamonds coming by the way..?lol Take care mate and don't worry about comments, though there is a dedi for you today... Rob

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