r the head of the Reaction-Engine Scientific Research Institute), and finally classed as Guards Mortars. The name BM-13 was only war allowed into secret documents in 1942. According to another version, because they were marked with the letter K (for Voronezh Komintern Factory), Red Army troops adopted a nickname from Mikhail Isakovskys popular wartime song, "Katyusha", about a girl longing for her absent beloved, who has gone away on military service. Katyusha is the Russian equivalent of Katie, an endearing diminutive form of the name Katherine: Yekaterina --Katya --Katyusha. We have prepared for you a song called "Katyusha" in English. (Приложение5)
Moscow-London: And about what heroes of Great Britain can you tell?
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London: What do Briton Douglas Bader and Russian Aleksei Maresyev have in common?
The answer is simple: both were Second World War heroes who fought. . . without legs.
Douglas
Douglas Bader is one the best known war heroes in Britain. Douglas was born in England in 1910. His father was a major in the British Army in the First World War. In 1922, when Douglas was only 12, his father died. Traditionally, British Army officers were from the upper middle class families and educated, their children in public schools. However, public schools are expensive and with the loss of his fathers income, private education became impossible for Douglas. He saved the day by winning a sports scholarship to St Edwards School in Oxford. When Douglas was 18, he won a cadetship to Cranwell Air Force Academy. The young man fell in love with flying almost imme - diately and started flying solo after only six and a half hours of training. He quickly became one of the best young pil
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