This is my story about what I saw in Vietnam and how it affected my life. All events are real; I hope that the chronology and geography are close enough to reality, at least that’s how I see it. Character names and characteristics have been changed out of respect for their privacy. I would like to apologize to the “grumblers” if they don’t like this word. I have nothing but respect for them, remembering the conditions in which they had to serve. I hope that my memories will make other veterans talk about the Vietnam War era and how it affected people and society as a whole. Instead of talking about the political aspects of the war, I focused on telling the real life of a helicopter pilot in Vietnam in 1965-1966. I hope that the events will speak for themselves. A cult book, published for the first time in Russian. The publishing design has been preserved in PDF A4 format.