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I dedicate this for Hero of Soviet Union Viktor Vasilevich Talalikhin and other Soviet pilots who defended the socialistic Motherland.
On the night of 6–7 August 1941, flying a Soviet Air Defense Forces Polikarpov I-16 fighter over Moscow, Talalikhin rammed a German Heinkel He 111 bomber after running out of ammunition, destroying both aircraft. Wounded by machine-gun fire from the German bomber, he parachuted to safety, landing in a small lake. He was reported as the first pilot in history to ram an enemy aircraft at night, and was feted in Moscow by Soviet media as the first major Soviet air hero of World War II.[5]

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Background by www.drive2.ru/users/danchik-1/
Aircraft models by Oleg Shuldyakov

Description
I dedicate this for Hero of Soviet Union Viktor Vasilevich Talalikhin and other Soviet pilots who defended the socialistic Motherland.
On the night of 6–7 August 1941, flying a Soviet Air Defense Forces Polikarpov I-16 fighter over Moscow, Talalikhin rammed a German Heinkel He 111 bomber after running out of ammunition, destroying both aircraft. Wounded by machine-gun fire from the German bomber, he parachuted to safety, landing in a small lake. He was reported as the first pilot in history to ram an enemy aircraft at night, and was feted in Moscow by Soviet media as the first major Soviet air hero of World War II.[5]

Refs:
Background by www.drive2.ru/users/danchik-1/
Aircraft models by Oleg Shuldyakov