Kamozin Pavel Mikhailovich

1.

Kamozin Pavel
Mikhailovich

2.

Kamozin Pavel Mikhailovich is a fighter pilot. He
was born in a workers’
family on July 3, 1917 in
Bezhitsa (now a region of
the city of Bryansk).

3.

In 1931 he finished the
6th form at school and
entered the school of
factory apprenticeship.

4.

Then he worked as a locksmith at "the Krasny
Profintern plant" (now the "Bryansk Machine—
Building Plant").

5.

In 1934 he began studying at the Bezhitsky Aero
Club. He joined the Red Army in 1937. In 1938 he
finished the Borisoglebsk Military Aviation School of
Pilots and worked as an instructor pilot.

6.

Junior Lieutenant P. M.
Kamozin made his first
combat mission in the
Great Patriotic War on
June 23, 1941 on an «I16» fighter. He was injured
in the foot.
After the hospital, he
worked at the headquarters
of the 44th Fighter Division.

7.

In total, during the Great
Patriotic War, Pavel
Mikhailovich
Kamozin
made
186
flights,
conducted 90 air battles
and personally shot
down
35
enemy
aircrafts.
P. M. Kamozin has 34
personal and 4 group
victories on his combat
account.

8.

P. M. Kamozin is a twice
Hero of the Soviet
Union, awarded two
Gold Star medals, two
Orders of Lenin, two
Orders of the Red
Banner, the Order of
Alexander Nevsky, and
the Order of the Patriotic
War of the first rank.

9.

After
the
Great
Patriotic war P. M.
Kamozin lived and
worked in public
aviation in his native
city of Bryansk.
On November 24,
1983 he died and
was
buried
in
Bryansk.There is a
monument to Pavel
Kamozin in the city.

10.

A bronze bust of P.
M.
Kamozin
is
installed
in
the
square near the BMZ
Palace of Culture