Person attributes
Soviet fighter pilot, at the time of the feat in the summer of 1941 — deputy squadron commander of the 27th Fighter Aviation Regiment of the 6th Fighter Aviation Corps of the Moscow Air Defense Zone, senior lieutenant. Hero of the Russian Federation (21.09.1995, posthumously). The first pilot in the history of the Great Patriotic War who made a night air ram.
Biography
South Ural Peter Yeremeyev was born in Bashkiria on June 11, 1911. After graduating from high school, Peter and his parents moved to the Chelyabinsk region, the city of Asha. There he got a job as a hammerer at a metallurgical plant.
In 1930, after graduating from the Zlatoust Mechanical School, he went to military service in the Red Army. In 1933, Yeremeyev graduated from the aviation school of pilots in the city of Orenburg, and in 1936 he was sent to the Air Force Research Institute to serve as a test pilot.
Pyotr Vasilyevich mastered the technique of piloting an airplane not only during the day, but also at night. A highly professional fighter pilot from the very first days of the Great Patriotic War stood up for the Motherland. He made his first battle on the night from July 21 to July 22, 1941, when the German air force launched a raid on Moscow.
Yeremeyev Peter Vasilevich, was born on June 11, 1911 in the Ufa region. He finished Zlatoustovsky metallurgical technical school in 1930 and graduated from Orenburg military aviation school of pilots in 1933. Yeremeyev served as the test pilot and has been sent to the front of the Great Patriotic War since June 1941. On the night of July 29 on the fighter MIG-3 he attacked the enemy bomber Yu-88 not far from Moscow, that was the first time in the military history night ram attack. He became the commander of a squadron of the 4th aviation division He was the participant of the Great Patriotic War, the fighter pilot, the senior lieutenant, the Hero of the Russian Federation (21.09.1995, posthumously). He made more than 100 assault flights, brought down 2 enemy planes. He was killed in air battle on October 2, 1941. Yeremeyev was (posthumously) given the rank of the Hero of the Sovet Union for courage and heroism in the Great Patriotic War.
Soviet pilots bravely defended the airspace over the capital, Pyotr Yeremeyev, pursuing a German bomber, opened fire on it from a short distance.
