I.N. Kozhedub's book "Loyalty to the Motherland" with the autograph of the author and a lot of personal photos of the hero

The original book is in good collector's condition. Moscow: Children's literature, 1967. 422 p., 8 l. ill.: ill. 20.5×14.5 cm. In an embossed all-fabric publishing binding. The title has an autograph by I.N. Kozhedub: "Boris Vitalievich Akhapnin, success in life. I. Kozhedub. 20.I.81". The binding is worn, the fabric is torn. Traces of flipping. The lot also contains 5 original photographs of the 1980s, which depict Ivan Nikitovich himself, probably during a visit to some military unit. Guarantee of authenticity.

Ivan Nikitovich Kozhedub (1920-1991) — Soviet military commander, air marshal, ace pilot. Three times Hero of the Soviet Union. Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, People's Deputy of the USSR. Ace pilot of the Great Patriotic War, the most effective fighter pilot in Allied aviation. By the end of the war, Guard Major I. Kozhedub flew La-7, made 330 sorties, shot down 64 enemy aircraft in 120 air battles (including two American ones that attacked Kozhedub in the sky over Berlin in 1945). He was never shot down during the Great Patriotic War, and although he was shot down, he always landed his plane. He also has the world's first jet fighter, the German Me-262, which he shot down on February 19, 1945. If it weren't for the secrecy, he might well have received a fourth Hero's medal for the war in Korea: From April 1951 to January 1952, he commanded the 324th Fighter Aviation Division as part of the 64th Fighter Aviation Corps. During this time, the division's pilots scored 216 aerial victories, losing only 27 vehicles (9 pilots died). A pseudonym during the fighting as part of a group of Soviet military specialists in Korea — "Krylov".