The best book about long-range bombers of the Great Patriotic War! The author of these memoirs—Hero of the Soviet Union, honored military pilot of the USSR V. V. Reshetnikov—not only commanded long-range aviation for more than ten years, but also stood at the origins of the legendary long-range aviation, completing 307 combat sorties on the Il-4 (DB-3f) during the war—bombing Königsberg and Berlin, being shot down twice by anti-aircraft fire and enemy fighters, yet always returning to duty. This book is a gripping account of the fate of the generation of Victory—the formation and development of the famous Soviet long-range aviation.