Nikolai Frantsevich Gastello (April 23 (May 6), 1907, Moscow, Russian Empire — June 26, 1941, Molodechno district, Vileisk region, BSSR, USSR) was a Soviet military pilot who participated in three wars. Hero of the Soviet Union, posthumously. Gastello accomplished the feat on June 26, 1941, on the 5th day of the war. The crew under the command of Captain N. F. Gastello took off on a DB-3f aircraft to bomb a German mechanized column on the Molodechno—Radoshkovichi road. Gastello's plane was hit by enemy anti-aircraft artillery fire. An enemy shell damaged the fuel tank, which caused a fire on board, and Gastello carried out a "fire ram" — he sent a burning car at a mechanized enemy column. All crew members died. By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated July 26, 1941, Captain Nikolai Frantsevich Gastello was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union for "exemplary performance of combat missions of the command at the front of the struggle against German fascism and his bravery and heroism."

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Н.Ф. Гастелло

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