Memoirs of Hero of the Soviet Union Vasily Emelianenko. The whole truth about one of the most dangerous military professions. It is no secret that during the Great Patriotic War, it was attack aircraft that suffered the heaviest losses - while, according to statistics, a fighter entered into air combat in only one flight out of four (or even less often), for attack pilots, each mission led to direct fire contact with the enemy. This book tells about combat work in great detail: what we had to see and experience, what it was like to carry out bombing strikes under hurricane anti-aircraft fire and repel the attacks of enemy fighters, for which the Germans nicknamed the “silts” the “black death” and what price was paid for the Great Victory.