A flight of IL-2 attack aircraft reaches the attack line... “A minute to the goal,” sounds the leader’s command. This means that we need to put aside all fears, doubts, jitters and focus on the goal, not paying attention to the dense anti-aircraft fire and the Messers who came up behind us... Everyday life of an attack air regiment on the Western Front in the Rzhev region in the spring of 1942 through the eyes of our contemporary, transported into a bloody whirlwind The Great Patriotic War and became a junior lieutenant in the Red Army Air Force. There is little heroic in them - “ordinary” combat “work”. An enemy raid on an airfield, counteracting saboteurs, daily flights... And evening gatherings at the canteen, issuing a combat leaflet, Komsomol meetings. And between them there is only a green rocket rushing towards the clouds: “Stormtroopers - take off!”