9th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment

9th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
9th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
Country	Soviet Union
Branch	Soviet Air Force
Engagements	World War II Battle of Stalingrad; Operation Bagration Vitebsk–Orsha Offensive; Minsk Offensive; Vilnius Offensive; ; Gumbinnen Operation; East Prussian Offensive Heiligenbeil Pocket; Battle of Königsberg; Samland Offensive; ; Battle of Berlin; ;
Decorations	Guards designation; Order of the Red Banner; Order of Suvorov
Commanders
Regimental Commander	Lev Shestakov (until Aug 1943); Anatoly Morozov (Aug 1943 – June 1944); Arkady Kovachevich (June 1944 – Sept 1944); Vladimir Lavrinenkov (Sept 1944 – Aug 1945)
Aircraft flown
Fighter	Yakovlev Yak-1; Bell P-39 Airacobra; Lavochkin La-7

The 9th "Odessa" Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment was a "regiment of aces" unit in the Soviet Air Forces created to assist the USSR in gaining air supremacy over the Luftwaffe during the Second World War.