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The Last Flight of Boris Lazarev The mummified body of Boris Lazarev, a soviet pilot found in the swamp where he crashed his Hurricane in 1943 Boris Lazarev was a Soviet World War II Pilot who was shot down in February, 1943 by the Luftwaffe. His body and aircraft were recovered in a swamp in 1998 in a mummified condition. It was February 21, 1943. The war raged on the Eastern Front. The 22 year old pilot Boris Alexandrovich Lazarev and his Hurricane took off in order to halt an attack of the German Luftwaffe.. Pilot Rudolf Müller, from the 6. Staffel/ Jagdgeschwader 5 “Expertenstaffel” prepared to add another air victory under his belt, which would also be his last. Müller himself was shot down in April of that year and executed while trying to escape from the soviet prison camp. 66 years after this long-forgotten incident, Russians and Americans, searching in the archives found the details of the dogfight. They decided to go to look in the swamp where Lazarev’s Hurricane crashed. Soo...