Do you want to know what luck is? Read the book by Sergei Kramarenko, a fighter pilot, the first ace of the jet era, who went through two wars. He was lucky - after graduating from college with twenty minutes of flight time on the LaGG-3, he got the chance to finish his studies in the reserve regiment and only in the fall of 1942 he got to front. He was lucky, he did not immediately fall into the thick of battle, but began to fight, gradually gaining combat experience. He was shot down and captured, but he was lucky again, and the German officer canceled the execution. And soon the offensive operation of the Red Army began, Kramarenko was released, and after the war he continued to fly. He was shot down again in an air battle over Korea, and again he was lucky: the American pilot did not hit him as he descended by parachute.