Нас звали «смертниками». Исповедь торпедоносца

A unique memoir of a torpedo pilot who made 187 sorties and 31 torpedo attacks (more than anyone else in naval aviation) under heavy fire from the best German air defense in the world. Confession of the Hero of the Soviet Union, who sank 12 enemy ships in the Baltic. The whole truth about the most dangerous flying profession - it’s not for nothing that the front-line soldiers called torpedo bombers and top mast pilots “suicide bombers”: the average lifespan of the crews of the Baltic mine and torpedo aviation was only 15 sorties. “Many episodes of my combat past, when recalling them, resonated with acute pain in my heart, causing only one desire - to completely forget about everything. But the war did not want to let me go. Flashes of anti-aircraft shells around my plane, the faces of dead comrades against their will again and again appeared before my eyes. Sometimes it became completely incomprehensible how miraculously I managed to survive in this bloody meat grinder ... And once again returning to the events I experienced, I realized that I had to tell about them. This is my last combat mission…”