Shalimov, Vladimir Yegorovich

Date of birth:: August 8th, 1908 (Bol'shiye Prokhody, Russian Empire)
Date of death:: July 23rd, 1942 (Uritsk/Leningrad, Soviet Union)
Buried on:: Soviet War Graves Krasnenkoe Cemetery St. Petersburg
Nationality:: Soviet

Biography

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Orden Krasnogo Znameni

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:: 1940

Orden Krasnoi Zvezdy

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:: 1941

Orden Krasnogo Znameni

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:: 1942

Medal "Zolotaya Zvezda" (Geroi Sovetskogo Soyuza)

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:: Gvardii mayor
Unit:: 15th Guards Ground Attack Aviation Regiment, 23rd Army, Leningrad Front
Awarded on:: February 10th, 1943

By the time of the death on the combat account of an outstanding pilot, there were 52 sorties for attacking enemy troops (all as commander of the group, not counting combat missions against Japanese and Finnish troops in the pre-war period). He destroyed 20 enemy aircraft at its airfields, as well as 15 tanks, 76 vehicles, 10 guns, 55 wagons with military cargo, and more than a hundred machine-gun and mortar points. He personally shot down 1 enemy aircraft during dogfights.

Posthumously awarded