On June 22, 1941, thousands of Luftwaffe aircraft struck the territory of the USSR. One of the first targets of the vultures Gerin’s was the border airfields. It seemed that German strategists had calculated everything, but from the very first minutes of the war, fierce air battles broke out in the sky and continued for all four years of the war. For four years Soviet fighters, covering ground troops, broke the formation of German bombers, fought “Focke-Wulfs” and “Messerschmitts,” covering their own bombers and assault aircraft, died and won—by every possible means drawing closer to Victory. The new book of the “I Remember” project (http://iremember.ru) is a straightforward and unsophisticated account of the fighter pilots—both those who took the fight on June 22, 1941, and those who came after them.