Amet‑Khan Sultan, Crimean Tatar ace, earned two Hero of the Soviet Union titles
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Amet‑Khan Sultan was born in Alupka, Crimea, in October 1920 to a Crimean Tatar mother and a Lak father from Dagestan, joined the army in 1939 and graduated from the Kacha military flying school in 1940.
He flew combat missions from the start of Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, served in the 9th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment, and on 31 May 1942 near Yaroslavl rammed a German Junkers Ju 88 bomber while piloting a Hurricane, escaping by parachute; he was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 24 August 1943 and a second award on 29 June 1945, with a wartime record of 603 combat sorties, 30 individual aerial victories and 19 shared victories.