List of Famous people with last name Kozhedub

Ivan Kozhedub

First Name Ivan
Last Name Kozhedub
Born on June 8, 1920
Died on August 8, 1991 (aged 71)

Ivan Nikitovich Kozhedub was a Soviet World War II fighter ace. Credited with over 60 solo victories by most historians, he is considered to be the highest scoring Soviet and Allied fighter pilot of World War II. He is one of the few pilots to have shot down a Messerschmitt Me 262 jet. He was made a Hero of the Soviet Union on three occasions. After the war he remained in the military and commanded the 324th Fighter Air Division during Soviet operations in the Korean War.

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