Biography of the pilot Fadeev

He lived in Kuibyshev, graduated from 3 courses of a construction institute and a local flying club, in which he was left as an instructor. Since the year in the ranks of the Red Army, he graduated from the Chkalov Military Aviation School of pilots. Since August 19, Lieutenant V. Fadeev on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. Since May - in the Mr. Guards IAP. He flew to and, Yak-1 and AeroCobes.

By the end of April, the squadron commander of the Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment I am a mixed aviation division, the 4th Air Army, the North Caucasian Front of the Guard Captain V. Fadeev made military departure. After conducting 43 air fighting, he shot down 17 enemy aircraft. He was buried in the Central Park of the village of Kiev, the Crimean district of the Krasnodar Territory.

His name is bear streets in the city of Samara and in the village of Kiev. He was awarded the orders: Lenin, the Red Banner twice. After high school, he entered the aero club. He graduated from him in the year. He worked as an instructor. In January, he was sent to a military school of pilots. In July, at his request, he was seconded to the army. At first he fought as part of the GO aviation regiments, flying on an airplane and once, in the area of ​​Kodym Moldova, V.

Fadeev with a group of fighters attacked a column of Romanian cavalrymen. Having shot all the cartridges, he went down to the ground itself and chopped the riders with a screw with a screw. Such a fact is interesting. The first Order of the Red Banner V. Fadeev received in the harsh year near Taganrog. Once in difficult times among the infantrymen, he raised them on the attack and, setting an example of courage and courage, with them repelled the dominant height from the enemy.

During the war years, the story of an old soldier, a participant in the liberation of Rostov-on-Don, brought in the book of V. Borobnoy, “man from a legend”, passed into the mouth. In the late autumn of the year, the 2nd day of the day our infantrymen fought for a small mound - "five brothers", which many in the south, and could not knock out the fascists entrenched there.

And suddenly our fighter flies over the German trenches, very low, silently, with a stopped screw. The Nazis shoot him from rifles, from machine guns, they raised such a chatter, even though the ears are plugged, and they don’t take him bullets. And he sits on the ground frozen with mines and shells, sits down meters from the front line, calmly, as out of the blue.

A pilot jumps out of a small plane - how he only placed in him - and runs to his trenches. Around the bullet, buzz with a whistle, pieces of 3 mines fell, sang with fragments, and did not hurt him. How can I not recall: “The brave bullet was afraid to show the commander on the map, where the mortars beat, where the armored vehicles are, in which places there are more infantry. Our artillery spoke.

The pilot jumped out of the commanding dugout, holds the machine gun in his hands, shouted with his powerful voice:“ Ahead of the homeland! The glory of the brothers who died there many centuries, but the red infantry did not give the enemy on the ground, everyone tries to catch up with the giant, and he sends him ahead of the heights, they focused on the guard, and it was the same The giant was a pilot - a fighter of a mixed aircraft regiment, Sergeant Fadeev Vadim Ivanovich - a pupil of the Kuibyshev airborne club.

For the feat of the Kurgan, "Five Brothers" he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, awarded the extraordinary military rank of "Lieutenant". Here is what the former commander of the 4th Air Army writes about Fadeev, the chief marshal of the Aviation K. Vershinin: “Soon after this battle, Fadeev already flew up with the commander of the village A. Novikov to reconnaissance.

They had to go along the route Slavyansk - Kramatorskaya - Konstantinovskaya - Artemovsk. In the area of ​​Shakhtya Bis, the enemy opened strongly along our stunches However, the Soviet pilots, skillfully maneuvering, slipped through the fiery veil. I knew Vadim Ivanovich Fadeev well. He fought boldly, even risky the second order of the Red Banner, he was awarded for air battles over Mother Suchako.

In the year, Lieutenant V. Fadeev arrived in the guards fighter air regiment, quickly mastered new equipment, became an excellent leading couples, and then the squadron commander.

Vadim carefully kept a document issued by the commander of the Air Army - an order to issue a double food ration and permission for individual sewing clothes and shoes. From the finished uniform, nothing suited him - everything was not enough. His brilliant abilities of the pilot - the fighter fully blamed in the battles in the Kuban.Possessing great physical strength and endurance, he made 5-6 sorties per day.

Sometimes I shot down several aircraft for the departure. Here, from April to June, one of the largest air battles in the Great Patriotic War was held. As a result of continuous fierce battles, Soviet aircraft pulled out the initiative from the hands of the enemy and won dominance in the air not only in this area, but in the future on the entire Soviet -German front.

The first pilot of the 4th Air Army, represented by the high rank of Hero of the Soviet Union during the battles over the Kuban, was the guard Captain V. The flamberry patriot, a skilled air fighter, Vadim licked the enemy without a miss. For only one week, he destroyed 10 enemy aircraft personally and 1 in the group! I recall the air battle that senior lieutenant V.

Fadeev on April 17, then held the guard, then. The eight of the fighters, the shock group - started - started from the airfield for the 3rd time. The cover of 4 aircraft was headed by the senior lieutenant G. The guard had to go over the spurs of the main Caucasian ridge, in some places with protracted clouds, then turn over the sea. And now the mountain ridge is behind.

Vadim saw a bluish scope in front. But there is no time to admire the beauty of nature. All attention to air space. The enemy may appear unexpectedly. The pilot did not see, but rather intuitively felt that the enemy was somewhere close. It is true: on the traverse of Anapa from the Sun, the course of Novorossiysk, several waves of Ju diving bombers, were heavier in the air, and cover fighters above them.

Vadim glanced up. There was a fourth of Grigory Rechkalov. On the left, from the Anapa airfield, rising ribbons with yellowish dust, enemy fighters took off. Be battle over the sea! On the right, at a distance below, the Novorossiysk shrouded in smoke swam. Frequent crimson flashes on a small patch were visible - the Mother's Peninsula. It was this site that needed to be covered from the blows of enemy bombers.

There, buried in rocky ground, brave Soviet paratroopers stood to death, firmly holding the bridgehead. The 12 Ju, accompanied by the group, came to the area of ​​Mer Very and cheerful, Vadim was bold and swift in battle, fought desperately, despising danger. He burned with hatred of the enemy, he searched for him, and having found it, he never retreated, no matter how strong the enemy was.

The pilot seemed to merge together with his fighter, his fire from the gun and machine guns was incinerating. Fadeev always hoped for his led by Andrei of Labor, other pilots of the group. It is not surprising that in just 3 weeks he managed to defeat about 20 enemy aircraft. Komesk saw everyone and saw everything, in difficult times was ready to cover a comrade.