About the book: 2014 / Unique memoirs of a torpedo bomber pilot who made 187 sorties and 31 torpedo attacks (more than anyone in naval aviation) under hurricane fire 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 front-line soldiers nicknamed torpedo bombers and top-mastmen “suicide bombers”: the average lifespan of the crews of the Baltic mine-torpedo aviation was only 15 combat missions. “Many episodes of my combat past, when remembering them, a sharp pain was felt 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, appeared before my eyes again and again. At times 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 talk about them. This is my last combat mission…»