448 The Story of the Ace of the Air (Part I)
Tariel. Aliluyev, this name may be unfamiliar to many comrades, but that familiar Aliluyev says it all. In the USSR, there were many people with the surname Aliluyev, but only one Aliluyev was the most special, and that was Stalin's wife's house. And this Taliel. Aliluyev is Vasily. Dzhugashvili, that is, Stalin's second son.
So why did he change his name to Taliel? Not entirely because Stalin was forced to leave, in fact Stalin's children knew what had happened to their father. Having grown up in a political family, they knew very well what was wrong with Stalin, and they knew that their father had been overthrown, but that the Party Central Committee had not publicly announced it in order to save the party's face.
Of course, Stalin's three children were not frightened by this, and they were not angry at what happened to their father. In fact, Stalin's children did not have a good relationship with steel. The eldest son, Yakov, was the child left by his ex-wife of Steel, a young man born in 1907 who was only six years younger than his stepmother, Nadezhda. And before the victory of the October Revolution, he hardly met Stalin, and had always grown up in the house of his uncle Svanidze. Moreover, Comrade Iron was really not very kind to this eldest son, he was quite stern and even harsh, and even Trotsky could not look down on it.
The second is Vasily, and in history, before the suicide of Nadezhda, the second wife of Comrade Steel, he had a good relationship with Steel, and Steel did not treat Vasily as much as Yakov. But Nadezhda's suicide changed all that, and her brother collapsed, in the words of Stalin's youngest daughter, Svetlana.
Of course. Vasily was not the only one who collapsed. Svetlana also hated steel from that moment on. For the rest of her life, she cursed steel, and died without forgiving her father who was too harsh.
Of course, this is historical. In this time and space, Nadezhda did not commit suicide, but her relationship with Steel was as bad as ever, and the couple could not live together at all because of political disagreements. Especially when Stalin's **** conspiracy was revealed and brought down, Nadezhda fell into deep self-reproach. She believes that she has not played the role that a wife and a party member should have, and has not supervised and persuaded her husband to follow the right path.
Nadezhda fell into depression and was ready to commit suicide at one point. Fortunately, it was discovered early and rescued in time, so that it was not as tragic as in history. However, Rao is like this, this woman also collapsed, completely losing the ability to take care of herself, let alone take care of her two children.
At that time, Vasily was 19 years old, and Svetlana was 14 years old. It was the moment of transition from teenager to youth, when suddenly Dad became a traitor and Mom went crazy again. The two children really have the potential to become weeds on the side of the road.
At this critical juncture, Lenin and Trotsky reached out to help. The custody of Vasily passed to Lenin. And Svetlana was cared for by Trotsky. To be honest, this is a rare achievement, especially for Trotsky. It's really a high wind and bright festival. Stalin wanted his old life, and he chose to put aside his hatred and take care of the enemy's young daughter.
Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye the Great Patriotic War broke out. Vasily, who changed his name to Taliel, signed up for the Red Air Force, while his eldest brother Yakov had already entered the army. As for why Vasily changed his name to Taliel, there is an explanation. Because initially Stalin gave his second son a Georgian name, Taliel, and Nadezhda wanted his son to have a Russian name.
Vasily's change of name was not to forget the past, on the contrary, he chose the name that his father gave him in the first place, so that he would always remember his father and wash away the family's reputation with practical actions.
Very strong, Tariel was admitted to the Kacha Military Flight School as a pilot, and after a year of study, he was admitted to the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy. After successfully completing his studies in July 1943, he entered the Air Force with the rank of Air Force Lieutenant.
Of course, these are the statements in later military history or official biographies, anyway, these official articles seem to want to create the image of a good student and a good soldier who is diligent and studious. But the real Tariel is not like that.
The fall of Stalin and the collapse of his mother still dealt him a rather heavy blow, which made him even more rebellious in his rebellious period, and even the Lenins could not submit to this "wild horse". Extremely unsociable and sensitive, Taliel is a maverick and non-mainstream anyway, with fights and brawls at school from time to time, and his academic performance is a mess. Anyway, it's a problem teenager.
However, there is one thing that is not wrong in the official article, Tariel is very competitive and strong, and in order to take revenge on the senior man who bullied him, he can squat for a month in the snowy weather with great patience and perseverance, in order to wait for him to be alone, and then beat him coldly.
Of course, before the fall of Stalin, Taliel had such rebellious tendencies, only not so obviously. In 1936, this unruly boy suddenly became obsessed with flying and was ready to give up his high school studies to join the army. But neither Stalin nor Nadezhda agreed, and the Soviet military service law did not allow young people under the age of eighteen to join the army.
What did Tariel do to make her dream of flying come true? He secretly sold some of the artifacts in the Klimt Palace, scraped together enough money to arrive in Finland, and then prepared to travel from Finland to Germany, where he heard that the Germans were recruiting volunteers to go to Spain. Fortunately, the KGB found the kid and arrested him before he left for Germany.
Then in 1940, after the fall of Stalin, Taliel again tried to enter the war directly. At the height of the Battle of Britain, the young man once again tried to fight as a volunteer, but his wish was once again frustrated, and since he was less than 21 years old, he needed the permission of his parents to fight, which Lenin would certainly not have agreed.
But Lenin also knew that he couldn't stop this little guy for long, so he simply sent him to the Kacha flight school, and he should stop a little while he was playing with planes!
I have to say that Lenin was right, and Taliel, who had airplanes to play, was very hilarious, whether it was in Kacha or Zhukovsky, Tariel was fascinated by flight training. On the other hand, it is also almost crazy about the shooting skills of the researcher. Things like ranging, target calibration, and ballistics became almost part of his subconscious.
But the only thing that upsets Tariel is that. He was trapped in the school, and he couldn't go to the front lines to fight, which made him feel like he had nothing to do. It was easy to survive until July 1, 1942, when Tariel finally graduated with honors and was finally able to participate in the war!
You can imagine how excited he was at that time, but in fact Tariel was even more excited than you think, on July 3, the day he had just arrived at the unit and set up a plane to carry out his mission. He stabbed Lou Zi.
At that time, Tariel was following the flight at the tail of the formation, and at first it was nothing, and as soon as he arrived in the combat zone, Tariel suddenly broke away from the formation because he heard a radio announcement that there were enemy planes nearby.
In the ecstasy, Taliel could no longer care about flying in formation, twisted the control stick and ran away, not to mention, this kid really ran into an enemy plane - an FW-190. Piloting the Yak-7, Taliel didn't care about the difference in performance between the two planes, and pounced on it with a fierce punch. really responded to that sentence and punched the master to death. The German pilots, who were caught off guard, failed to block Taliel's three-plank axe and were simply shot down.
Taliel's behavior was undoubtedly quite bad in the Red Air Force of that year. No superior likes a rookie who doesn't follow orders, so even shooting down an enemy plane, Tariel, received only a round of criticism.
If it is an ordinary person, he will learn to be wise after receiving this lesson. But Talliel is a problem child, a little master of death. Two days later, when he took to the air for the second time, he repeated his old trick again, broke away from the formation alone, and shot down another BF-109.
Well, this time Tariel stabbed the hornet's nest, and the angry superiors immediately deprived him of the right to take off into the air, and Tariel could only go to help the ground crew refuel and carry the bomb. Such a life is naturally unbearable for him. So when Taliel heard that besieged Odessa needed volunteer pilots, he signed up without saying a word, and his superiors approved it without saying a word.
On August 10, 1942, he arrived in Odessa in a Yak-7 Tariel, but after arriving in Odessa and seeing the situation there, Tariel's mood was quite low. The situation in besieged Odessa was terrible, everything was extremely scarce, and the living conditions were so poor that even the normal food supply was difficult. The Luftwaffe and Romanian air forces bombed the area every day, turning it into a living hell.
After some time, however, Taliel found himself in love with Odessa. Due to the special situation in Odessa, all the rigid and cumbersome rules and regulations of the Red Air Force are almost completely wiped out here. He is free to fly and fight!
However, in Odessa Tariel, he was as unsociable and unpopular, and was labeled as untrustworthy by his comrades. However, Tariel luckily met an admirer of him, Lieutenant Colonel Boris, nicknamed "The Scoundrel", the commander of the Fighter Flying Regiment, who gave him a chance to prove himself.
From late August 1942, the long-suppressed Taliel erupted, and on his first flight in Odessa he shot down an Italian CantZ.1007 three-engine medium bomber and claimed to have shot down two Italian Macchi MC.202 fighters. On the same day, during his third sortie, Tariel took off and rushed into a formation of two JU-88s and 20 BF-109Fs, and after a series of scuffles, he shot down two BF-109Fs and retreated.
In World War II, many pilots often chose to shoot blindly in the fierce aerial dogfight, because the target was fleeting and difficult to aim, so they often chose to continue to shoot blindly, in order to rain down as many bullets as possible on the target, hoping to slap the opponent. However, the effect of this kind of shooting is really unsatisfactory, and even if it is lucky enough to hit the target, it can often only cause minor damage to enemy aircraft. However, Tariel is different, he rarely shoots continuously, and each shot is very targeted, and the enemy planes he hits are basically dead. It can be said that he is the most ruthless aerial killer, performing aerial lores with precise firepower.
The two BF-109Fs shot down by Taliel earned him the title of ace pilot, but his comrades did not join him in celebrating the victory, but unanimously condemned his "lone wolf" tactics.
But Tariel didn't care what people said, throughout August and September. He strikes alone most of the time. But in the course of more than a month, he alone shot down 15 enemy planes. and damaged 6 aircraft. This earned him a Order of the Red Banner.
To be honest, there is definitely more than one Order of the Red Banner for Tariel's victory, at least one Order of Lenin, especially considering that he achieved this result in the Yak-7, this difficulty is really not ordinarily high!
Of course, Taliel was not iron-clad, and on August 14, during an air battle, he spotted a group of BF-109s while setting off alone. In other words, someone else has already called for support or. But this was not the case, and once again he rushed into the horde of enemy aircraft, shooting down one BF-109 and damaging the other two in the melee. However, the fierce battle also left him a small souvenir, and after landing, the doctor removed two pieces of shrapnel from Tariel's thigh, which forced him to abandon the day's further operation, but the next day, he flew back to the battlefield.
On 27 September, Taliel celebrated an important day in his air battle in Odessa. On this day, a large number of JU-88 bombers attacked Odessa under the cover of BF-109 and Maki MC.202 fighters. Tariel's regiment was ordered to volley, and this time Tariel shot down two MC.202 and one BF-109. and wounded three more enemy aircraft.
Interestingly, the pilot of the first enemy plane shot down by Taliel, Romanian Ilyev, parachuted out. Inadvertently, this Ilyev also set a magical record, he was the only one of all the pilots shot down by Taliel who survived! The other pilots were killed in the cockpit by Tallier's accurate marksmanship.
However, on this day, Taliel was also shot down, and after another Zhao Zilong-style tactic, his Yak-7 was finally bitten by the enemy plane, and the entire rear half of the fuselage was broken. Interestingly, Tariel did not choose to parachute, but drove the Yak-7 without a tail to crash into the field. This was the third time he had made a forced landing in a badly damaged warplane, this time his plane had flipped over in the field, and he himself had been knocked unconscious in the violent concussion.
After being carried back to the airport by his comrades, Tariel was severely criticized by the commander of the "villain" regiment: "Why didn't you parachute as ordered?" Why! ”
In the opinion of the commander of the "villain", Taliel was simply crazy, no one could fly back to the airfield in a fighter with a lost tail, the most correct thing to do was to parachute immediately. Compared to a fighter plane that is doomed to be saved, an ace pilot like Taliel is more important and precious. So the head of the regiment was angry at Tariel's choice, and swore: "If you kid is confused again, Lao Tzu will let you get out!" ”
So why doesn't Tariel skydive? Later on, Tariel's mental state was unstable, and his withdrawn personality and the tremendous pressure from his father's side gave him a tendency to self-destruct, and for him every lift-off battle was the last lift-off battle, either he destroyed the enemy or was destroyed by the enemy.
After that, after every liftoff, the first thing Tariel did was throw away the parachute. No matter how much persuasion and orders were given by his superiors and comrades, it was useless, and later the ground crew simply did not equip his plane with a parachute, because it would be wasted anyway, after all, Odessa's supplies were still very tight.
How nervous is it? Even pilots like Taliel had to adhere to strict rations, which were once so strict that they couldn't even eat, which made the pilots extremely weak. For example, Taliel suffered from severe dysentery and had difficulty even walking.
However, even in this case, the madman still took to the skies and shot down two enemy planes, until he was completely unable to stand up and had to stay in bed before he was forced to return to Sevastopol to recuperate.
However, the period of recuperation lasted only ten days, and as soon as he improved, Tariel escaped from the hospital, and when he arrived at the unit to report, he weighed only 51 kilograms, which is simply skinny for a large man of 1.8 meters.
With a body of ribs, Taliel once again flew into the blue sky and fired down two BF-109s and one JU88 again on the same day. The next day, he flew the same fighter again and shot down two more BF-109s and one FW-190, but he was nearly killed in the battle that day.
At that time, he quickly took out two BF-109s, and then realized that one of his comrades was in danger, so he immediately swooped down and opened heavy fire on the FW-190 that was attacking his comrades. However, Tarriel did not notice that he himself was also targeted by another BF-109, and at the same time that he shot down the FW-190, he was also firmly trapped by the enemy, and in an instant he was drowned by a hail of bullets - his right foot, left arm, left leg and back were all shot!
With a cloud of smoke and flames, Taliel's plane crashed straight into the sea, but surprisingly, he was lucky that the Red Navy's destroyer Passion was on a mission nearby at the time, and he was quickly rescued...... (To be continued.) )
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