Alexander Mikhailovich [1] Quail ( 1918 - 1942 ) - Soviet military pilot . Member of World War II . Hero of the Soviet Union ( 1941 ). Senior lieutenant .
| Alexander Mikhailovich Perepelitsa | |||
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| Ukrainian Oleksandr Mikhailovich Perepelitsya | |||
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| Date of Birth | February 24, 1918 | ||
| Place of Birth | Melitopol station, Tauride province , Donetsk-Kryvyi Rih Soviet Republic (now Zaporizhzhya region of Ukraine) | ||
| Date of death | May 15, 1942 (24 years old) | ||
| Place of death | near the village of Taranovka, Zmievsky district , Kharkov region , Ukrainian SSR | ||
| Affiliation |  the USSR | ||
| Type of army | air Force | ||
| Years of service | 1937-1942 | ||
| Rank | senior lieutenant  | ||
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| Battles / wars | The Great Patriotic War | ||
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Content
Biography
Alexander Mikhailovich Perepelitsa was born on February 24, 1918 at the Melitopol railway station in the Melitopol district of the Tauride province of the Donetsk-Kryvyi Rih Soviet Republic (now within the city of Melitopol in the Zaporizhzhya region of Ukraine ) in a working family. Ukrainian .
He graduated from seven classes of the school and the school of FZU in Melitopol. Then he worked as an instructor in the school of FZU.
In the ranks of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army A. M. Perepelitsa was called up by the Melitopol District Military Commissariat of the Dnipropetrovsk Region [2] of the Ukrainian SSR in 1937 and sent to the Kachinsky Red Banner Military Aviation School named after A. F. Myasnikov [3] , which he graduated in 1938 . Before the war, he served in the Kiev Special Military District .
In the first hours of the war, the material part of the unit in which the younger lieutenant A.M. Perepelitsa served was destroyed. The flight and technical personnel were evacuated to the rear. In August 1941, a separate fighter squadron was formed from the I-153 biplanes remaining at the disposal of the Southwestern Front , which went on to strengthen the 44th Fighter Aviation Division [4] . Junior Lieutenant A.M. Perepelitsa was appointed to this squadron as aviation commander. By early September 1941, on the basis of a separate fighter aviation squadron, the 271st fighter aviation regiment was formed [5] . On September 5, 1941, the 3rd air squadron under the command of Captain Fatkulin departed for the Southern Front near Dnepropetrovsk . As a separate aviation squadron, it was included in the 44th Fighter Aviation Division, part of the Air Force of the 6th Army of the Southwestern Front.
Being a nominally fighter, a separate squadron, armed with outdated aircraft ( I-153 ), was able to carry out only assault operations. By November 1941, junior lieutenant A.M. Perepelitsa made 61 successful sorties, of which 42 - to attack the enemy ground forces, 12 - to reconnaissance and 10 - to escort bombers. During the attack, he destroyed 6 tanks, 32 vehicles with military cargo and troops, 125 carts, 4 field artillery guns and up to 800 enemy soldiers and officers. The aviation unit under the command of Alexander Mikhailovich made 161 sorties, during which 8 tanks, 98 vehicles, 160 carts with cargoes and up to 2,500 Wehrmacht troops were destroyed. On October 21, 1941, during a combat mission, the Perepelitsy plane was damaged and made an emergency landing on the front line. Alexander Mikhailovich managed to mobilize the retreating infantrymen, with the help of which he took the plane out of fire, and then on oxen he transferred it to Barvenkovo station, from where it delivered it to its unit.
On November 20, 1941, for the exemplary performance of the command missions at the front of the struggle against the German invaders and the courage and heroism shown to this, Junior Lieutenant Alexander Mikhailovich Perepelitsa was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.
On November 4, 1941, the fighter aviation regiment of the 44th Fighter Aviation Division [6] was assigned combat number 92. The regiment was still engaged mainly for delivering assault attacks on enemy troop concentrations and destroying its infrastructure. Alexander Mikhailovich participated in the Barvenkovo-Lozovsky operation , in battles for a bridgehead on the right bank of the Seversky Donets , went from a junior lieutenant to a senior lieutenant, was appointed commander of an air squadron. In May 1942, Senior Lieutenant A.M. Perepelitsa participated in the Kharkov operation . When completing a mission to destroy a bridge near the city of Zmiev in the Kharkov region in an air battle, the plane of Alexander Mikhailovich was shot down and crashed in the vicinity of the village of Taranovka .
The body of the pilot was buried by local residents in a rural cemetery. In 1943, after the liberation of the village by the Red Army, his remains were reburied in the mass grave of Soviet soldiers who died during the liberation of Taranovka.
Rewards
- Medal "Golden Star" (11/20/1941).
- Order of Lenin (11/20/1941).
Memory
- On the building of the flying club, which previously housed the Melitopol Aviation School, in which the Hero studied, a memorial plaque was installed on August 17, 2013 [7] . The name of Alexander Perepelitsy is Melitopol Professional Lyceum of Railway Transport [8] .
Notes
- ↑ The award sheet and the decree on conferring the title of Hero of the Soviet Union erroneously indicate patronymic Ivanovich.
- ↑ Zaporizhzhya region was formed from the southeastern part of the Dnepropetrovsk region on January 10, 1939.
- ↑ At the time of admission, it was called the 1st military school of pilots named after A.F. Myasnikov.
- ↑ At the end of August 1941, there were only 12 serviceable aircraft in the 44th Fighter Aviation Division.
- ↑ Anokhin V.A. Bykov M.Yu. All fighter aviation regiments of Stalin. The first complete encyclopedia. - Popular science. - Moscow: Yauza-press, 2014 .-- S. 128 .-- 944 p. - ISBN 978-5-9955-0707-9 .
- ↑ Since February 1942, the regiment was directly subordinate to the Air Force control of the 6th Army.
- ↑ Local news .
- ↑ History of one main mortgage .
Literature
- Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Brief Biographical Dictionary / Prev. ed. collegium I. N. Shkadov . - M .: Military Publishing , 1988. - T. 2 / Love - Yashchuk /. - 863 s. - 100,000 copies. - ISBN 5-203-00536-2 .
- Andreev S. A. The perfect by them is immortal. In 2 books. Book 1. - M: High School, 1976. - S. 55-56. - 336 p.
- Lukash I. M. Soldiers did not seek fame: essays on the Heroes of the Soviet Union - natives of the Zaporozhye region. - Dnepropetrovsk: Promin, 1984. - S. 257-260. - 398 p.
Documents
- Public electronic document bank “The Feat of the People in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945” . Date of treatment June 2, 2012. Archived March 13, 2012.
- Presentation to the title of Hero of the Soviet Union . Date of treatment June 2, 2012. Archived September 23, 2012.
- The generalized database “Memorial” . Date of treatment June 2, 2012. Archived on May 10, 2012.
- TsAMO, f. 56, op. 12220, . Date of treatment June 2, 2012. Archived September 23, 2012.
- TsAMO, f. 58, op. 818883, d.928 . Date of treatment June 2, 2012. Archived September 23, 2012.
- Information from the burial list . Date of treatment June 2, 2012. Archived September 23, 2012.
- TsAMO, f. 58, op. 818883, d.928 . Date of treatment June 2, 2012. Archived September 23, 2012.
Links
- Perepelitsa, Alexander Mikhailovich . Site " Heroes of the country ".
- Perepelitsa Alexander Mikhailovich at www.az-libr.ru . Date of treatment June 2, 2012. Archived September 23, 2012.
- The book of memory of the Kharkov region . Date of treatment June 2, 2012. Archived September 23, 2012.
- Aviators of the Second World War . Date of treatment June 2, 2012. Archived September 23, 2012.