Igor Bush Biography

Alley of Heroes in Chuguev bushes Igor Efremovich - pilot of the fighter aviation regiment of the 3rd shock army of the Kalinin Front, senior sergeant. Born on June 7 in the city of Kushvynovo, Tver region. Member of the CPS B. He graduated from nine classes of secondary school, then an aero club in Bryansk, where he moved with his family in the year. In the year he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army.

In the year he graduated from the Chuguev Military Aviation School of pilots. In the battles of the Great Patriotic War since December. In January, three fighters rose from the snowy airfield in the Upper Volga region and headed for foam. The host of the group was I. here and the railway, the foam station. This could not be allowed. The three fighters crashed into the system of enemy vehicles, opened fire.

Having spent all the ammunition in battle, I. Kustov decided to ram one of the bombers - he sent his fighter directly to the enemy’s forehead. But at the last moment, the German pilot could not stand it and dumped to the side.

Without dropping the bombs, the "Junkers" went home. In February, I. Kustov and two other pilots at the hill airfield burned 2 German transport aircraft, then 4 "Junkers", one Hensel, one Haminkel and one "Junkers" were destroyed in group air battles. The bushes were shot down by the "Junkers". The next day he won another victory, knocking down Henshel. The bushes were destroyed by the German bomber "Junkers".

The same type is shot down by them on February 26. In two days, March 8 and 9, I. Kustov shot down 3 enemy aircraft in air battles. The fight with a German fighter on March 9, almost ended tragically. When the senior sergeant I. Kustov shot down a bombardor, due to the clouds on him, Ma Kustov suddenly rushed to dodge a striking blow. The plane survived, but the pilot was severely injured.

The senior sergeant was not at a loss. Overcoming the pain, he brought the car out of the battle and put it at his airfield. In March, next to the front line in the area of ​​the city of Kuvshinov on a shocking flight on a fighter and rammed the enemy bomber. On a damaged aircraft landed in the field. Having fulfilled his first combat output on January 17 of the year, after all the incomplete two months, the summer pilot was presented to the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

By that time, in 71 combat departure on and he personally shot down five Ju, Ju and HS, and destroyed 12 more aircraft as part of the group. The bushes selflessly conducted a battle, shot down a hee bomber and, despite a severe wound, did not leave the battle. When returning to the airfield, the plane sat normally, but did not cut down from the landing strip. When people ran to the car, at some point they froze in surprise.

There was no living place left on the plane: all is excited by bullets and shells, and blood flooded the cabin and pilot. During the battle, the MM Aviation projectile exploded in the cabin, pulled out a collarbone, some of the lungs, wounded his arm and hand. In an unconscious state, I. Kustov was sent to the hospital. I. Kustov returned to the system only in October. He quickly entered the pilots of the regiment.

With the previous courage, he took an active part in the battles for Kyiv. Exclusively I. Kustov fought over the Dnieper, where he destroyed six enemy aircraft on the Yak-7B. Two of them are FW fighter and FW adjustor in one flight on November 6. It was on November 6, at his proposal that the noses of the squadron aircraft were painted red to the wing. By the end of November, halfway from Zhytomyr to Kyiv, the enemy was stopped, and the regiment was displayed for the reorganization after five months.

In the rear, for new Yak-9D aircraft, 10 pilots were sent. Among them was I. True, a wedding was scheduled for the New Year, but he did not refuse this business trip, saying that personal affairs should not influence the service. The bushes flew out, rushing to his wedding, in difficult weather conditions, hoping to slip to an even greater deterioration in visibility.

On the route, cloud cover began to decline, merging with a strip of fog at once. The pilot did not notice this catch and, jumping into it, immediately lost sight of the land. He did not dare to leave the top and began to decline in order to grab the ground with his eyes. But the fog was too thick. At 11 o’clock 15 minutes, the plane crashed into the ground near Kyiv.

He was buried in Kyiv at the Solomensky cemetery. By that time, the brave pilot had made near combat sorties, shot down 20 enemy aircraft personally and 12 in a group with comrades. He was awarded the Order of Lenin and two orders of the Red Banner. On the building of the school of the city of Kuvshinov, in memory of the glorious fellow countryman, a memorial plaque was installed, in Bryansk - a monument to the hero.

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