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Ivan Nikitovich Kozhedub (Russian: Иван Hикитович Кожедуб; Ukrainian: Іван Микитович Кожедуб; 8 June 1920 – 8 August 1991) was a Soviet World War II fighter ace. Universally credited with over 60 solo victories, he is considered to be the highest scoring Soviet and Allied fighter pilot of World War II. He is one of the few pilots to have shot down a Messerschmitt Me 262 jet, and the first Soviet pilot to have done so. He was made a Hero of the Soviet Union on three occasions (4 February 1944, 19 August 1944, and 18 August 1945). After World War II, he remained in the military and went on to command the 324th Fighter Aviation Division during Soviet operations in the Korean War.

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Post war era

Upon returning to the USSR Kozhedub attended the Air Force Academy based in Monino, which he graduated from in May 1949 and was originally supposed to be posted as deputy commander of the 31st Fighter Aviation Division based in Baku, but due to his high status as a top flying ace he was instead reassigned to the 324th Fighter Aviation Division per orders from above. There, he initially served as assistant commander for flight training, but was soon promoted to command the division in November 1950. Soon thereafter in the unit was sent to China, where initially they trained Chinese and Korean pilots. Kozhedub, despite being one of the first pilots to master the MiG-15 fighter jet back in 1949, was strictly forbidden from participating in combat sorties by order of many of his commanding officers. In addition, his division consisted of only two regiments (the 176th Guards and 196th Fighter Aviation Regiments) instead of the usual three. Nevertheless, the pilots of his division claimed 216 aerial victories in Korea from April 1951 to February 1952, while sustaining only 27 MiG-15 losses and nine pilots killed.