Viktor Talalikhin

Viktor Talalikhin

Viktor Talalikhin (1918-1941) was a Soviet lieutenant during World War II and a Hero of the Soviet Union.

Talalikhin Viktor Vasilievich (Талалихин Виктор Васильевич, in Russian). (1918-1941) He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in 1938, became a fighter pilot. He participated in Soviet-Finnish War (1939-1940) (Winter War).

During the Great Patriotic War (WWII), he was first a wing commander, then a deputy squadron commander. On August 7, 1941 he was the first pilot who used a night-time aerial ram against German bomber. In subsequent battles, he shot down 5 enemy planes. He was killed in an aerial dog-fight.

He was declared a Hero of the Soviet Union in 1941.


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