Rank: Captain. Type of troops: Aviation. Subdivision: 3rd Long-Range Aviation Division. In 1939 I graduated from the Kachin Aviation School. The war with Germany found us in Spassk-Dalny. We moved to Monino and got brand new DB-ZF (IL-4). We bombed tank and mechanized troops in the areas of Dmitrov-Orlovsky, Chepilovo-Yukhnov, Novgorod-Seversky, Medyn, Drakino, Staritsa-Kalinin. They bombed and destroyed bridges and crossings on the Ugra and Izverya rivers, pontoon, highway and railway bridges across the Volga river, destroyed aircraft and destroyed airfields in Smolensk, Bobruisk, Mogilev, Dvoevka, Gzhatsk, made night raids on railway junctions in Orel, Vitebsk , Kaluga, Volokolamsk, Mozhaisk, Rzhev, Gzhatsk. But even more difficult were the flights with the landing at the "partisan airfields". It took exceptional skill to land a heavy C-47 on a small platform in a forest clearing or a hummock meadow, and then lift it into the air, loaded as much as possible with wounded partisans and children ... Already in April of the 45th, battle-hardened regiment veterans were sitting at the controls and confidently led their planes to Berlin ... For everyone who burned down in this war, for everyone who died on the gallows and died under the torture of Hitler's executioners, for the barbarously shot, tortured women, children, old people, for our burned down cities, burned out village, for the death and blood of our comrades, we destroyed the den of the fascist beast. And again to the Far East on the transport and landing C-47A. Here I know all the mountains, hills and airfields. After the victory over Germany, we had such a passion that Japan would be defeated in the shortest possible time. And already on September 2, 1945, the act of Japan's unconditional surrender was signed. The Second World War is over. Kushnirenko Vasily Kuzmich, during the years of the Great Patriotic War, made 2626 sorties, of which 287 were combat, incl. 243 nightlife. The following aircraft were mastered: R-5; Po-2; P-6; I-16; Sat; IL-4; B-25; S-47; LI-2; IL-12. When performing combat missions, he flew a total of 700 thousand kilometers, incl. 160 thousand kilometers - over the territory of the enemy. He dropped over 200 tons of bombs on various military and industrial facilities. During his service, he flew 3767 flights.