Lieutenant Nikolai Dmitrievich Devyatkin (born in 1920, right) with a squadron mate (21st fighter aviation regiment) at the La-5 fighter after a successful air battle with a German Focke-Wulf FW.189 reconnaissance aircraft near Dukhovshchina. On the left is the future Hero of the Soviet Union, second Lieutenant Boris Mikhailovich Afanasiev (born in 1920).