The Post War and The Beginning of The Cold War (1945-50)
In 1946 the 176th GIAP was redeployed to the aerodrome of Teplyy Stan on the south-west outskirts of Moscow and was among the first units to receive the new prop-driven La-9, the jet-propelled La-15, and in late 1949 the MiG-15. Already the zamkomesk (Замкомэск, заместител командир эскадрилии = zamestitel komandir eskadrilii = deputy squadron leader) of the regiment's 3rd AE of Aleksandr Vasko, Капитан (Kapitan = Captain) Kramarenko flew the MiG-15 during the 1950 May Day fly-past over the Kremlin and Red Square, and on 14 August over Tushino airbase (for Air Force Day ).
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Famous quotes containing the words post, war, beginning and/or cold:
“I can forgive even that wrong of wrongs,
Those undreamt accidents that have made me
Seeing that Fame has perished this long while,
Being but a part of ancient ceremony
Notorious, till all my priceless things
Are but a post the passing dogs defile.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Catholics are necessarily at war with this age. That we are not more conscious of the fact, that we so often endeavour to make an impossible peace with it—that is the tragedy. You cannot serve God and Mammon.”
—Eric Gill (1882–1940)
“For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places: all this is but the beginning of the birth pangs.”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 24:7,8.
“I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes—and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)