Dmitry Borisovich Glinka (; – 1 March 1979) was a Soviet flying ace during World War II who was twice awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union for his achievements, having scored 50 individual aerial victories by the end of the war. His older brother, Boris Glinka, was also a flying ace and Hero of the Soviet Union. Early life Glinka was born on 12 December 1917 in the village of Aleksandrov Dar, located within present-day Kryvyi Rih. After completing only six grades of school he worked as an electrician, a miner, and at a brick factory until he completed flight training at the Kryvyi Rih aeroclub and joined the military in December 1937. In February 1939 he graduated from the Kachin Military Aviation School and was assigned to a fighter regiment based in Baku. World War II Shortly after the German invasion of the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941 Glinka saw action as a fighter pilot in the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran, piloting a Yak-1 of the 45th Fighter Aviation Regiment. Starting in January 1942 he served on the Eastern Front after the 45th Fighter Regiment was assigned to the Crimean Front where they remained until May 1942; the regiment later received the Guards designation and was renamed the 100th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment in June 1943. From May to July 1942 and February to August 1943 Glinka took part in the Battle of the Caucasus on the North Caucasian Front. He also saw action on the Transcaucasian and Ukrainian fronts, seeing further aerial combat both defensive and offensive operations of Kuban, Donbass, Lvov-Sandomierz, Sandomierz–Silesian, Lower Silesian, Berlin, and Prague. Exactly one month after scoring his first aerial victory by shooting down a Ju 88, Glinka's Yak-1 was shot down over Crimea after a dogfight on 9 May 1942. He was saved by his parachute but suffered a severe concussion in the process and was confined to a hospital for several months. He was wounded again on 16 September 1943 on a mission to bomb an enemy airfield after a fragment from an explosive tore through his leg. While passenger on a flight on 18 July 1944 he sustained another head injury and was forced to remain in the hospital for two months. However, none of the injuries deterred him from flying. On 21 April 1943 he was awarded his first gold star, having been nominated