About the book: 2015 / The official combat account of the author of these memoirs includes 56 shot down Soviet aircraft - an entire air regiment! Eino Antero Luukkanen became the third most successful fighter pilot and the youngest squadron commander in the Finnish Air Force, was awarded the highest orders - the Mannerheim Cross and the Iron Cross - but in 1953 the “national hero of Suomi” was arrested and convicted as a Soviet spy! It was in prison that this sensational book was written. This is the “front-line truth” of one of the best Finnish aces, who distinguished himself both in the Winter War of 1939-1940 and in the Continuation War, when Finland, in alliance with Hitler, attacked the USSR . This is a look at the air battles of the Second World War from the cockpit of the motley fighters on which Finnish pilots had the opportunity to fight - Dutch Fokkers, American Brewsters, German Messerschmitts Bf.109 (the Finns affectionately nicknamed them "Mers") and even captured Soviet "Seagulls"».