Leonid Bykovets (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Guards Colonel Leonid Alexandrovich Bykovets (December 14, 1921 - July 7, 1997) was a Soviet airman who was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union in 1945 for valour during the German-Soviet War.Bykovets was born in Kolomna, near Moscow in the Soviet Union in 1921 into a working class family. He graduated from high school in 1937 at the age of 16 and worked as a projectionist in his home town. He got his pilot's licence two years later in 1939, and joined the Red Air Force as a volunteer in 1940.