YURII MIKHAILOVICH KHUKHRIKOV, captain
Inteview: For example,
Pokryshkin flew more than 500 sorties. Participated in 84 dogfights. Shot
down 59 aircraft. I also have 84 combat sorties. But if you translate
our effectiveness into money, I wouldn't be short of him. Be sure of that.
Of course, ground attack pilots' hands are covered in blood up to the
elbows.
But it was our duty, and I think we did a first class job. Did everything
we could. Well, and God didn't pass us by with "crosses".
Interview: I do not know who really shot us down, but we caught fire and began to fell. Our aircraft fell down in the region of railroad station Karachev. I and the pilot Leytenant Pavel Radenko got out of the aircraft, which was standing at its nose. We asked each other about wounds and, having made sure that we were unharmed, decided to come away from the aircraft.
