Yevgeny Pepelyaev, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Soviet fighter pilot of the Korean War
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Place of Birth: Bodaybo, Russia
About Yevgeny Pepelyaev
- Yevgeny Georgievich Pepelyaev (Russian: ??????? ?????????? ????????; 18 March 1918 – 4 January 2013) a Soviet fighter pilot in the Korean war; most Russian sources credit him as the second-highest scoring pilot in the war with 19 shootdowns, placing him only below Nikolai Sutyagin.
- However, some Western sources indicate him to be the top ace of the war, and he claimed to have 23 victories in his memoir, which would put him above Sutyagin's 22 shootdowns.
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