Nikolai Gastello

Nikolai Gastello

Nikolai Frantsevich Gastello (Russian: Николай Францевич Гастелло, May 6, 1908 - June 26, 1941), Russian aviator, Hero of the Soviet Union. He is one of the best known Soviet war heroes, being the first Soviet pilot to conduct a "fire taran" - a suicide attack by an aircraft on a ground target.

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