Pavel Kamozin pilot biography

Twice Hero of the Soviet Union 1. Decree from Pavel Mikhailovich Kamozin was born on July 16 in the city of Bezhitsa now the district of the city of Bryansk in the family of a worker.

In the year he graduated from the 6th grades of the school and entered the Factory School of the FZU. In the year he began to study in an aero club without interruption from production. In the Soviet Army since the year. In the year he graduated from the Borisoglebsky military aviation school of pilots, after which he worked as an instructor pilot. The link commander, Junior Lieutenant P.

Kamozin, made his first combat flight into the Great Patriotic War on June 23 on the “I” fighter. In this battle he was wounded in the foot. After the hospital, together with the part, he was aimed at retraining to new fighters Lagg, but the front returned only a year later. In the first air battle in the Tuapse direction, under the village of Shaumyan, he shot down the Hitler fighter “ME”, and in the first month of the battles he destroyed four enemy aircraft, among which, armed with four guns and six machine guns, the bomber - “do”.

By the end of April, Junior Lieutenant Kamozin made 82 sorties to escort bombers, covering troops, intelligence and assault. In x air battles, he personally shot down 12 enemy aircraft. In the battles for Sevastopol, the pilots of the squadron Kamozin shot down 64 enemy aircraft, 19 of them were personally shot down by the squadron commander. He attacked him and shot down him.

18 German generals who were heading to Sevastopol were killed on the plane. During the Great Patriotic War in air battles, he personally shot down 35 enemy aircraft and 13 as part of the group. After the war ended, the famous Soviet pilot was demobilized from the army and returned to his hometown. He worked in civil aviation. He lived in the city of Bryansk. He died on November 24, was buried in Bryansk.

The awards were awarded two orders of Lenin Memory of P. Kamozin is one of the streets of the city of Bryansk. At the Palace of Culture of the Bryansk machine -builders, a bronze bust of Kamosin has been installed. In the year, in Borisoglebsk, opposite the main building of the school, the monument “Chkalovtsy Heroes of the Fatherland” was built, which included a bust of Kamosin P. was sent by Ivanov Alexander Polyanskovich.

The war found Junior Lieutenant Kamozin in the reserve aviation regiment, as an instructor pilot. In October, Pavel Kamozin arrived in the fighting unit. A fighter pilot was appointed a link commander. The front -line life began, complete risk and unforeseen dangers. On the second day of his stay in the regiment, he was sent to carry out a combat mission. The seven fighters, led by Junior Lieutenant Kamozin, patrolled over the coast of the Black Sea, covering the landing of the landing.

From time to time, the group commander tilted the plane from the wing to the wing and vigilantly examined the airspace. Below were the plantations of vineyards, mountain rivers and lakes, serpentine highways. In the distance there was a bright strip of the sea. But because of the clouds, six Messerschmitts emerged. They confidently went to rapprochement.

Kamozin ordered the led to close the system and prepare for the attack. The first air battle with a real enemy. Kamozin has been preparing for him from the day when he first sat in the cabin of the plane. He learned to destroy the enemy in a flight school and in a spare regiment. He shot well on the cone and on targets at the training ground. Will the hand tremble now?

There is one thought in the pilot’s head - to win, to win the first battle. Before the Messerschmitts it's time to open fire. The hand did not flinch, did not let the trained eye down. The first attack is the first victory! The Nazis, having suffered losses, caused reinforcement from the nearest airfield. Soon, another 15 Messerschmitts arrived at the battlefield. Triple superiority did not frighten Soviet fighters.

One by one, two more aircraft shot down by Pavel Kamozin fall to the ground. The leaders are not behind the commander, they boldly attack the fascists, do not give them a second of respite. It's time to return to the airfield. Fuel at the end. The pilot rejoiced. In the first battle - three shot down enemy aircraft! When Kamozin landed and climbed out of the cab, Colonel Smirnov, commander of the regiment, approached the plane and kissed the young pilot tightly.

The victory, won over the enemy, instilled confidence in Pavel Kamozin in her abilities. His commanding authority is strengthened. The subordinates saw in him a person who can be relying on in difficult times. The fame of Pavel Kamosin was multiplied in the battles for the liberation of Sevastopol. The squadron, which he commanded, destroyed 63 Nazi aircraft in the sultry Crimean sky.

Personally, Pavel Kamozin shot down 19 enemy aircraft. The Camozinians did not have their losses. Often flying to the “free hunt”, the squadron commander did not miss a single case to fight the enemy, destroy him or put to flight. So this time, flying along the rear of the Nazis, Pavel Kamozin noticed a heavy Nazi plane on the horizon. He went to the front line, accompanied by six Messerschmptt.

Kamozin did not count on a slight victory. He knew that the Nazis would fight to the last.He gained height, went from the side of the sun and threw the plane at the peak. If you do not bring down from the first attack, the enemy will leave: the cover fighters will not allow the second blow. The enemy car is getting closer and closer. Kamozin already clearly distinguishes the spider swastika and still does not press the trigger.

Now the led is caught with him, and they will hit together the enemy. The line is different, the third bomber smoked and abruptly went to a decline. And Kamozin and his manager went to their territory. A few days later, a message came to the regiment headquarters that Pavel Kamozin and his driven was shot down by a plane, on which a group of fascist generals and officers flew.

They brought iron crosses from Berlin to present the “particularly distinguished” soldiers and officers of the army. In the front -line units on the occasion of the death of the generals, the Nazi command declared mourning. The death of a group of higher fascist generals caused a commotion at the headquarters of the Nazi command. The order was given by any means to destroy the Russian ACA Pavel Kamozin.

From the "Diamond" squadrons of Goering to the front section, where Kamozin fought, they threw an experienced pilot, widely known in fascist aviation under the nickname "Graf". He made hundreds of combat sorties, fighting the British in the Norway sky. He shot from the air on the roads of France defenseless women and children, bombed Soviet hospitals in Minsk, and was awarded Goering’s personal gratitude for the mass destruction of refugees on the roads of Ukraine.

He was instructed to “remove” Kamosin. The insidious plan of the Nazis became known to the Soviet command. Urgent encryption flew into the regiment where Pavel Kamozin served. Colonel Smirnov, having familiarized himself with the document, called Pavel Kamosin. The pilot, after listening to the commander, said that he would now increase vigilance, but refused special security. The commander and commissar of the regiment looked at each other.

They were satisfied with their pet. You can be calm for him: he will be able to stand up for himself and for the honor of Soviet weapons. Pavel Kamozin headed for gunsmiths from the regiment’s headquarters. There were no war sorties on this day, and he decided to check the plane with them and re -shoot weapons.