Против "Мессеров" и "Сейбров". В небе двух войн

Do you want to know what luck is? Read the book by Sergei Kramarenko, a fighter pilot, the first ace of the jet era, who went through two wars. He was lucky - after graduating from college with twenty minutes of flight time on the LaGG-3, he got a chance to complete his studies in the reserve regiment, and only in the fall of the 42nd he got to the front. He was lucky, he did not immediately fall into the heat of battle, but began to fight, gradually gaining combat experience. He was shot down, captured, but he was lucky again, and the German officer canceled the execution. And soon the offensive operation of the Red Army began, Kramarenko was released, and after the war he continued to fly. He was shot down again in an air battle over Korea, and again he was lucky: the American pilot did not hit him, descending by parachute. But two personally shot down German and thirteen American planes are the result not of luck, but of the highest flying skills, marked by the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.