What city was the landing site for the Soviet fighter pilot whose biography was written by John Barron in 1980?
Viktor Belenko Viktor Ivanovich Belenko (Russian: Виктор Иванович Беленко , born 15 February 1947) is a former Soviet pilot who defected to the West while flying his MiG-25 'Foxbat' jet fighter and landed in Hakodate, Japan. The opportunity to examine the plane up close was an intelligence bonanza for the West. Belenko later became an American aerospace engineer.
Stepan Borozenets Borozovets served as an Ilyushin Il-2 ground attack aircraft pilot during World War II, and was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union for flying 94 sorties and destroying German equipment. Postwar, he went on to command a bomber aviation regiment before retiring in 1978. In 1995, he went to Chicago for medical treatment and remained in America until his death in 2016.