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Vassiliy Zhovtiy had been dreaming of the sky since he was a child. He was born to a family of farmers in a small Ukrainian village. With one year to go to the Second World War, the 19-year old young man entered the Valeriy Chkalov Borisogleb Aviation Academy. In 1941, he went to the front. Read the story here