Filipp Alexandrovich Agaltsov

Filipp Alexandrovich Agaltsov, 1900-1980, born at Soldatskoye in Tula province, a Soviet commander who became Marshal of Aviation on 28 April 1962 and also held the rank of brigade general of the Polish People's Army. He commanded Long-Range Aviation from 1962 to 1969, his highest post. The title of Hero of the Soviet Union was conferred on him on 21 February 1978 - long after the war and not for it. He is in this archive on his war service, which the structured record attests; the particular command he held in the Great Patriotic War is not established.