On 6 October 1944 the president of the Bell firm (USA) awarded engraved watches with congratulatory letters signed in English to Guards Colonel A. I. Pokryskhin, Guards Mayor D. B. Glinka, Guards Kapitan Grigorii Rechkalov, Guards Mayor B. B. Glinka, Guards Mayor K. G. Vishnevetskiy, Guards Kapitan Klubov, Guards Starshiy Leytenant I. I. Babak, Guards Starshiy Leytenant A. I. Trud and Guards Kapitan M. S. Komelkov.
These pilots all had shot down twenty or more enemy aircraft as of 24 June 1944 while flying the Airacobra and were all decorated with the Gold Star of the Hero of the Soviet Union (Pokryskhin three times, D. B. Glinka and Grigorii Rechkalov twice).
The watches were presented to the pilots by the commander of the 2nd Air Army, General Stepan Krasovskiy. Mayor Vishnevetskiy received his watch posthumously since he was killed on 30 July 1944 in an enemy air raid.
After the death of Aleksandr Pokryskhin in 1985, his widow Maria placed his “Bell” watch in the Central Museum of the Soviet (now Russian) Army in Moscow, where it remain on display to this day.

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