Background
GLINKA, Dmitriy was born in 1917 in Krivoy Rog, now Dnepropetrovsk Oblast.
GLINKA, Dmitriy was born in 1917 in Krivoy Rog, now Dnepropetrovsk Oblast.
After World War II graduated Air Force Academy.
Since 1937 in Soviet Army. 1941-1945 flew fighters on Crimean, Southern, North-Caucasian, Fourth, Second and First Ukrainia Fronts. Expert in aerial combat: flew 350 combat missions and shot down 56 enemy planes.
1945 attended World Conference of Democratic Youth, London. Deputy, USSR Supreme Soviet of 1946 convocation.
Member, Communist Party, since 1942.
Member, Communist Party, since 1942.