Alexey Timofeevich Voronin_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Second Lieutenant. Branch of the armed forces: aviation Division: 271st night bomber aviation Stalingrad-Rechitsa division. My great-uncle Alexey Voronin fought in the great Patriotic war as part of 271 IAP / 64 GIAP. He was a fighter pilot. Rank-second Lieutenant. By August 1944, he had flown 85 sorties, 35 of them reconnaissance missions, conducted 30 air battles, and shot down 6 aircraft. He was awarded two military orders of the red Star (01.08.1943, Ave. No. 012/n 4 gIad) and the red banner (10.07.44, Ave. No. 029/n 1 VA) on August 21, 1944, while escorting Il-2 attack aircraft near Auce (Lithuania), was shot down by anti-aircraft artillery fire. Was seriously wounded (in the head, arm, leg, left side), losing consciousness used a parachute. Two days later, he regained consciousness in captivity.A few days later, after treatment in a hospital in Libava, he was sent to the rear. He escaped from the train, made his way to the East for almost a month, but was captured again. Interrogations in the prison of Lodz, then the camp near Koenigberg. Here I met pilots from my 4 gIad Pyotr Kolpikov, Nikolai Vorobyov, and pilots majors Talamanov, Kitaev, and Vandyshev. Then there was a camp near Berlin, another unsuccessful escape in March 1945. 22.04.1945 was liberated by red Army units.Passed checks in 32 ZSP in Alkino (Bashkiria) and sent to its 64 GIAP. In 1947, he was demobilized.Return home. He worked as an instructor pilot in the Saransk Aero club, as a school teacher. Last years lived in Ivanovo. He died on may 5, 1990.