"After the capture of Sevastopol and the German evacuation of Crimea, Savitsky was a made a Hero of the Soviet Union and received the Order of Lenin on 11 May for his performance as commander of the 3rd Fighter Aviation
Corps and for flying 107 combat sorties with 15 victories. The 3rd Fighter Aviation Corps was withdrawn to the RVGK in mid-May and in June were transferred to the 1st Air Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front. During the summer of 1944 it fought in Operation Bagration and the subsidiary Vitebsk–Orsha, Minsk, Vilnius and Kaunas Offensives. Transferred to the 16th Air Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front in January 1945, the corps provided air cover for the troops of the front during the Warsaw–Poznan, East Pomeranian and Berlin Offensives. Following the end of the war, Savitsky received his second Hero of the Soviet Union and Order of Lenin awards on 2 June in Berlin.Yevgeny Savitsky was credited with flying 216 sorties with 22 individual and 2 shared victories.
Another capable ally,
Brian
The asteroid 4303 Savitskij is named for him as well.
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