Hero of the Soviet Union, Honored Military Pilot of the USSR V.V. Reshetnikov made 307 combat missions during the Great Patriotic War, bombed Koenigsberg, and was shot down twice - by anti-aircraft fire and enemy fighters (the second time, jumping out of a burning plane with parachute, landed on a minefield and miraculously survived), but always returned to duty. This book is a fascinating story about the fate of the generation of Winners, about the formation and development of Soviet Long-Range Aviation.