The youngest pilot of the Great Patriotic War. Arkady Kamanin
Arkady Nikolaevich Kamanin (November 2, 1928 – April 13, 1947) was a Soviet military pilot and the youngest pilot of World War II, having begun flying solo at the age of fourteen. He was the son of the renowned pilot and military leader N. P. Kamanin.
He participated in the Victory Parade on Red Square on June 24, 1945, as part of a combined regiment of the 2nd Ukrainian Front. He marched in the last rank of the combined pilot battalion commanded by his father, Lieutenant General N. P. Kamanin. He was the youngest participant in the Victory Parade.
After the Victory, he studied intensively and quickly overcame his lag in the school curriculum. In October 1946, Sergeant Major A. N. Kamanin was enrolled in the preparatory course at the N. E. Zhukovsky Air Force Academy.
He died at 18 of meningitis.[1] He is buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy Cemetery.[4]
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