Handing over the Guards Banner in the Osipenko Corps

1st Ukrainian Front, October 7, 1944. Aviation Major General Alexander Ivanovich Vikhorev presents the Guards Banner to the 8th Fighter Aviation Bobruisk Red Banner Corps. The banner is received by the corps commander, Hero of the Soviet Union, Lieutenant General Alexander Stepanovich Osipenko. Type of certificate. Pilots in the ranks; walk along the airfield, get on airplanes. Among those present: Hero of the Soviet Union, Colonel Pavel Terentyevich Korobkov, Colonel Mikhail Nesterovich Yakushin, Hero of the Soviet Union, Captain Pyotr Petrovich Peresumkin, Senior Lieutenant Kostenko.

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A. Lebedev