Rịba ama amaokwu a dị n'okpuru ma zaa ajụjụ ahụ mgbe e mesịrị n'otu asụsụ ahụ dị ka amaokwu ahụ:  Nkọwa: A mụrụ Maresyev na Kamyshin na nne na nna ndị Russia. Nna ya bụ onye ọrụ aka nke nwụrụ obere oge ọ lọtara Agha Worldwa Mbụ. Tupu ya abanye ndị agha na 1937 Maresyev rụrụ ọrụ dị ka onye na-atụgharị ma mesịa sonye na owuwu nke Komsomolsk-on-Amur. Na 1940 ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ na Bataysk Military School of Aviation. Ọ malitere njem ụgbọelu ya dị ka onye ọkwọ ụgbọelu na August 1941. Ọ gburu ụgbọ elu German anọ site na Machị 1942, mana na Eprel 4, 1942 a gbagburu Polikarpov I-16 ya n'akụkụ Staraya Russa, ihe fọrọ nke nta ka ọ bụrụ na onye ga-eme n'ọdịnihu Knight's Cross na ọkachamara 48-egbu Fw. Peter Siegler ((3./JG-54) ọ fọrọ nke nta ka ndị agha Nazi jide ya.  Ajụjụ: Olee mgbe e gburu ụgbọelu Peter Siegler n'akụkụ Staraya?
Eprel 4 afọ 1942