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the I-16, and gained four confirmed shootdowns of enemy aircraft, though some sources credit him with six victories during the conflict. He was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 22 February 1939 for his actions in the conflict, though newspapers made no mention of his role in the war and simply described him as a hero since the participation of the Soviet Union in the conflict was a military secret.
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Research Institute as a test pilot, where he flew with a squadron that conducted tests with I-5, I-14, I-15, and I-16 fighters. After returning from China in November 1939 he continued doing test flights, flying the I-16, I-153, and DI-6 until he left for his deployment to Mongolia in Spring 1939.
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were the first people awarded the title twice. Just a few days before the decree awarding him the title he scored his last shootdown, bringing up his tally to four solo and three shared kills. In total he flew 78 sorties in the battle before being recalled from the front on 11 September, when he and
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and tailed it for so long that he ran out of fuel and was forced to make a belly landing. He did not shoot it down, but he survived the ordeal and after two days he was found by the Red Army and returned to his unit, which had mistakenly believed him to have been killed in action and already sent a
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Japanese aviation. By August when he was recalled from the front, he had attained the position of squadron commander, flown 78 sorties on
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Military District. Earlier that year he had been promoted to the rank of general lieutenant. After graduating from the Military
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Mongolia on 2 June 1939 with a group of Soviet pilots, Kravchenko was posted to the 22nd Fighter Aviation Regiment as an adviser. On 27 June he participated in an intense air battle against over 100 Japanese planes heading to bomb Soviet airfields. He singled out a
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telegram to Moscow about his "death". Less than a month later he was made commander of the 22nd
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