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[music]
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already by lunchtime on June 22, 1941, the navigators of
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long-range bomber aviation, as
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they say, rolled out maps to Berlin,
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everyone was sure today or tomorrow, at most
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the day after tomorrow, they would receive an order and go
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to the capital of Germany, but another week passed
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3 and no order was received exactly a
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month later, July 22 the Germans bombed Moscow
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and for those who fled from the raids here on the
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floor of the Mayakovskaya metro station, it must have
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been very strangely bitter to see above
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them a magnificent panel on which Soviet aviation
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reigned supreme in the sky
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[music]
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at the Belorusskaya metro station in the underground
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bunker of the command post of the Moscow
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zone of Stalin's share member The
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State Defense Committee
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received all the information about the progress of repelling
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the raid, and probably at that moment Joseph
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Vissarionovich physically felt how the
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terrible news was spreading throughout the country:
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the Germans were bombing Moscow
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[music]
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by the way, back on July 8, 1941, the chief of the
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general staff of the German army,
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General Halder, wrote fermentation makoli
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bhima The Fuhrer's decision to raze Moscow and
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Leningrad to the ground in order to completely
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get rid of the population of these cities,
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which otherwise we
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will then be forced to feed during the winter,
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the task of destroying these cities must be
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carried out by ether aviation, I am sure that this
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will be a people's childhood that will deprive
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not only Bolshevism of centers
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but also Russians in general Is your centrum
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Moscow preparing for bombing around the
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city? They built a circular
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air defense up to 250
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kilometers deep. Thousands of anti-aircraft guns of
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various calibers and hundreds of fighters
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were put on full combat
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readiness. The
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main task of firefighters and
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civilians was to prevent fires
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from incendiary bombs.
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All residents of the capital, including children, were trained to extinguish them.
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and the old people in the attic were
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emptied of their belongings in every entrance they
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placed a barrel of water a box of sand in all
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houses there were round-the-clock watches
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for the crews of German bombers
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Moscow became the second capital after London
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which required not just
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regular bombing but complete destruction
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in London they managed to destroy and
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damage more than a million houses
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to destroy more than 40 thousand lives, it seemed that
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everything was going to happen again for some
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reason, many people believe that in those
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years the people of Berlin did not even know what the
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howl of an air raid siren was.
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in the forties, this was accomplished by
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formant 223 with the proud name Jules Verne,
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but in response to the bombing of London on
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August 25, 1940,
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British aviation began to carry out a raid on Berlin the very
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next day after the first
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German air raid on Moscow,
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the commander of the fleet aviation, General
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Zhavoronkov, addressed the People's
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Commissar of the Military naval fleet
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Kuznetsov with the idea of
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striking back at Berlin, a plan that at
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first glance seems crazy is in
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fact very realistic; a strike on
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Berlin could attract the most powerful
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bombers at that time, d8 and
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er-2; the maximum range of these aircraft
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would allow them to take off from the
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Pushkin airfield near Leningrad
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however, the engines on them were
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unreliable and needed improvement, but
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Semyon Fedorich Zhavoronkov found a way
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to send aircraft with a shorter
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range and payload capacity to Berlin, but with
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proven engines,
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for this purpose it was intended to attract 1
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mine to the torpedo aviation regiment under the
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command of Colonel Preobrazhensky,
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it was equipped with db-3 bombers they were
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called bugs, so a bug could
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take off at a distance of 900,950 kilometers
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from Berlin, get bombed
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and return back, although by the beginning of the war the
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DB-3 were already considered obsolete and
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slow-moving, many of the engines had exhausted
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their service life, there was no radio navigation and an
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autopilot, but all these disadvantages
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were compensated for by the advantages The flight
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crew, most of the pilots had more than
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3,000 hours of flight time on combat aircraft, and the
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navigator was recruited from the leadership of
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Lan Zhavoronkov.
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Kuznetsov liked the bombing of Berlin so much
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that within two days they were both in
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Stalin’s office and Stalin immediately approved this plan.
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It must be said that Admiral
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Kuznetsov I
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personally knew Colonel Preobrazhensky
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in the summer of 1940, the People's Commissar of the
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Navy personally worked for the
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release of Yevgeny Nikolaevich's father,
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Nikolai Alexander Preobrazhensky, he
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actively opposed the closure of churches,
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for which he was convicted, a miracle happened,
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Nikolai Sanych returned home,
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but then he could not walk for a very long time
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[music ]
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this is the only surviving
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copy of the TB-3 bomber; in general, there are
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very few war planes left,
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and some have completely disappeared, like the
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legendary heavy bomber Pe-8,
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but the bug is
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probably alive to remind
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us all who was the first in the skies over Berlin,
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right? I had the opportunity to meet more than once
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with a participant in these
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significant events, it was very convenient for me to
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communicate with Kratenko wader Makarych and
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so I arrived, he’s a bastard, you know,
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we’ll talk there and we’ll talk, but I need to
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glue the wallpaper and I got a lot of experience, I
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had to glue the wallpaper for the sake of meeting,
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of course, with bubbles as people joke, that’s why
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then we talked
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a lot with him and so he gave me a
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flight plan to Berlin,
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we were just impatient with them to get to Berlin as soon as possible,
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this is on the first day, I
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remember this state, this feeling when we
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found out that the Germans had suddenly broken through our
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the border had
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already been occupied by some villages and we
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just desperately needed Berlin,
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like many pilots, Colonel
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Preobrazhensky from the first days of the war
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hatched the idea of ​​​​bombing Berlin, his
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navigator Pyotr Khokhlov and
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part-time flag navigator of the 1st mine
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torpedo regiment has been
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carrying a map on his tablet since July an unusual
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route, the island of Saaremaa
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Berlin, so when the
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commander of the Air Force of the
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Navy Zhavoronkov arrives at the carefree airfield and sets the task of delivering the
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first bomb strike on Berlin,
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Preobrazhensky immediately puts on the
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table detailed calculations with already selected
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crews and a worked out route.
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Evgeniy Nikolaevich Preobrazhensky
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graduated from the military theoretical school of the
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RKK Air Force in Leningrad. the first year of service, he
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spent 70 days in the guardhouse for
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hooliganism in the air,
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pelvic turns over St. Isaac's Cathedral, then
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for dispersing people on Nevsky Prospekt,
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then Preobrazhensky studied at the
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Sevastopol pilot school, after
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which he was sent to the Baltic,
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where he proved himself to be a talented pilot
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and a capable organizer among the first
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composition a special air group included the
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most experienced crew of squadron commanders,
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captains Grechishnikov, Efremov, Belyaev,
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Plotkin, and of course, the crew of the
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Preobrazhensky captain Plotkin himself
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was considered probably the luckiest pilot in the regiment. On
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June 30, 1941, his squadron
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received an order to bomb a concentration of
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enemy equipment at a crossing near
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Dvinsk,
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and escort fighters, as is
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often the case then it happened and they gave me
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when approaching the target,
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fiery streams of anti-aircraft artillery reached out to the bombers
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around, mongrel explosions of
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large-caliber shells flared up, the
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pilots maneuvered but 30 seconds before the
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bombing, the so-called combat course
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had to go in a straight line as they retreated from the
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target, the squadron was attacked by
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a fighter
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[music]
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[ music]
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of the nine crews,
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only three returned home in Captain Plotkin's car, the
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technicians counted one hundred and twenty-seven
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holes
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[music] a
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selected group of 20 crews of the 1st mine
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torpedo regiment of Colonel
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Preobrazhensky was to be
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relocated to the secret
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Kabul airfield on the island of Saaremaa,
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but not now, not upon arrival on the island not
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even during the test flights, none of the
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participants knew the main goals of the operation, the
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Estonian island of Saaremaa, the
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German name is Ezel in August forty-
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one, this is the westernmost
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territory of the Soviet Union not yet
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captured by the Germans, from here in a straight line to
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Berlin in that direction, eight hundred and ninety
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kilometers on the island there are two military
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airfields of Kabul and AST and
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two squadrons of
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fighters and a flight of high-speed
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bombers from b2 are based on them; however, the
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fuel reserves for the operation are clearly
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insufficient and the runways
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need to be extended
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in order to ensure flights of a group of
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heavy bombers;
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reserves of fuel and bombs are required on August 2 from
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Kronstadt In conditions of heightened
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secrecy, a caravan of minesweepers left
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under the cover of sea hunters. At this
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time, there are only 24 minesweepers in the Baltic Sea; they are
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worth their weight in gold because they clear the
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fairways of enemy mines,
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but seven of them are allocated to support the
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Preobrazhensky group; minesweepers are not cargo; there
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was no space or
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ammunition in the ship’s holds. had to be placed on the
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decks, which meant that for an explosion
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one shell was enough to hit the
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target, the caravan safely crossed the
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mined hey Gulf of Finland, it
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entered Tallinn, besieged by the Germans, and on
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August 3 moored at the piers of Kura
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Sary, the capital of the island of Saaremaa, for
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three days the soldiers of 3 4 37 construction
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battalions extended and they leveled the
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runway as much
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as possible, the final length
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was 1300 meters, this church
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stood on the edge of the take-off on the roof,
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they equipped an observation point, but the
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spire had to be demolished, there was
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a danger that the plane would hit it on
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takeoff
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[music] On
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August 2, the air group leaves
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the airfield is carefree and lands here
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at the Kabul airfield, the planes immediately
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disperse among the trees and
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outbuildings and are covered with
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camouflage nets,
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after which Colonel Preobrazhensky
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flies around the airfield, changing altitude and
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directions to make sure
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the planes are not visible from the air,
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24-hour security is posted on each plane
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and 20 kilometers from here in the hydra harbor of
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Kisel Kona, 2 flying
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boats land 2 to save the types in the event of an
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emergency landing at sea, the flight crew
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placed a school building here in a place
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with an unpleasant name for the pilots, the
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technical staff was lodged in
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peasant houses closer to the airfield,
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and the very next day the Germans arrived they
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bombed towards the corner they did this during the day in
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small groups of aircraft with a maximum of
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four aircraft and their raids were
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ineffective, most likely
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the enemy did not realize that
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heavy bomber aircraft were stationed here
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[music]
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the flight to Berlin was delayed due to
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poor weather conditions in the target area,
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finally on the night of August 5 a
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test raid took place in our Tipton, about
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130 kilometers north of a group of
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bombers consisting of three aircraft
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captains Grechishnikov Plotkin
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Lieutenant Leonov
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there was also a difficulty in the fact that there
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were absolutely no navigation
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devices that could
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ensure normal flights towards
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Berlin back to there were no paths
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to guide our flights through the Baltic, the
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airfields themselves on the island of Azil were not
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illuminated, they were illuminated very poorly,
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only the runways were marked with lights,
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talk about
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radio navigation, but while
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radio navigation and we have not yet entered into
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our capabilities, the
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complexity of the reality of the greatest on the
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way back, Leonov's crew consisting of navigator
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Major Kotelnikov gunner-radio operator sergeant
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fishing air gunner Red Navy
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faithful lost his orientation,
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it was decided to land at the much more
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familiar Kotly airfield near Leningrad
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since no one was waiting for the pilots there, the
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airfield was not consecrated and upon landing
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the plane crashed; succeeded
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only faithfully this was the first but far
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from the last loss of a special air group the
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next night
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another test flight was planned
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[music]
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while they were preparing for departure from the command of the
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Baltic Fleet an order came from the command of the Baltic Fleet to
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carry out a task that almost
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killed the crew of Colonel
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Preobrazhensky and
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jeopardized everything operation, Colonel
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Preobrazhensky was ordered to bomb the
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enemy observation post in the area of ​​​​the
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city pr on August 5, three planes
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begin to move towards the
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runway in you through the hatches, one and a half tons of
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bombs each time 1300 temperature plus 27
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degrees the engines begin to slowly
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overheat, but they still take off
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first, the Preobrazhensky crew composed of
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navigator Khokhlov and gunners radio operators Rudakov
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Kratenko, the
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right engine began to make popping noises due to overheating,
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its thrust dropped and the plane did not
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gain altitude, what to do about turning to the
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right or left was out of the question, there was
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no sufficient speed, the only thing left was
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landing right in front of you, landing on a
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swamp strewn with stumps
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and the plane cannot be landed with stones with the landing gear retracted;
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bombs hang under the fuselage
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when they hit one of these obstacles,
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they will explode;
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the car runs into a large boulder;
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passes along it with the bottom, destroying the lower
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part of the fuselage to the very tail; the
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cockpit hatch and without a
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trail jumps down over his head,
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swings with powerful bombs, it
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took two days to repair the flagship aircraft,
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by the way, this episode was not recorded
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in any report, it’s not clear why there was
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such a risk on the eve of the flight to
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Berlin, but as they say, every cloud has a silver lining,
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this case clearly showed that the bomb
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load needed to be reduced,
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and at least by half, only on the morning of
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August 7, the commander of the Air Force Zhavoronkov and
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Colonel Preobrazhensky initiated the
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pilots into the details of the operation and reported
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that the flight was scheduled for today, of
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course they understood that their goal was somewhere
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deep in the rear of the Germans, but then that it
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will be Berlin, that they will be the first,
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yes, they only dreamed about it, and even
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since the
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low-speed DB-3 b can be bombed without
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air cover, only at night they
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will need to fly out in advance, which means that
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the first 100 kilometers in the zone of action of
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enemy fighters they will go
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in daylight
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as you know, the greatest danger to the
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enemy’s air defense
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is on approach to the city
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because within its boundaries the caliber and number of
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anti-aircraft guns is smaller; the roof of an ordinary
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house cannot withstand the recoil of a firing
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large-caliber
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air defense gun, and if
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you put it in the middle of the street,
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then the anti-aircraft gunner’s visibility will be minimal,
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only in Berlin everything was not so
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simple in April 1941,
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the Germans put into operation the
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first so-called Luftwaffe anti-aircraft tower,
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thanks to which it
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was possible to use
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large-caliber guns within the city limits when
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we talked and how long the
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flight took, it was about 7 8 hours and he said
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depending from the wind, I guess it’s
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good when the wind blows on your back, it pushes
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Berlin faster, he’s a bastard, don’t tell
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us, it’s better that he meet you
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and especially closer to Berlin,
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when the wind is oncoming, he carries the noise of
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running engines and they are discovered
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later, the
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start time was set for 21 00 the
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main targets for bombing
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were tank construction and
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aircraft construction factories in Berlin,
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airfields and railway stations
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where military
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trains with weapons and ammunition for the
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eastern pound were concentrated, as you know, the devil
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is in the details, the
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maps of Berlin that were issued by our
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navigator were 1 1936, that is, outdated here
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by the way, one of them, of course,
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all the important military
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strategic industrial sites are marked
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here, there is not a single indication of anti-aircraft
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batteries and searchlight installations; as
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it later turned out, they met our
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planes already here from 100 kilometers from
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the city; the
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air defense of that time
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could operate at an altitude of up to 6000
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meters Accordingly, the aircraft had to
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fly above this mark; the
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flagship crew of Preobrazhensky
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had to strike the pate at the Tomsk
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railway station in Berlin; according to
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intelligence data, many
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trains of military equipment had accumulated there; taking into account
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the ground surface of the airfield and the
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wear of the engines, it was
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decided to take on board
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250 100-kilogram bombs with a total weight
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no more than 800 kilograms
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the area of ​​Berlin in the forty-first is more than 80
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thousand hectares to see the target from a height of
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more than 6000 meters in a very limited
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amount of time the task is not easy,
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but everyone understood the main thing to fly to the target
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will be found in case of loss of orientation,
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equipment failures or changes in weather
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conditions, the pilot was ordered bombs
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reserve targets in the city of Danzig Stanton
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Königsberg all day long 7 technicians prepare the
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cars gas tank is filled to capacity
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all excess is removed because every
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kilogram saved is plus a
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kilometer of travel into the bambo hatches they load
00:21:57
bombs with the inscription gift to Hitler
00:22:00
Himmler death the court of Goering and
00:22:02
Ribbentrop and packs of leaflets are placed in the cabins
00:22:05
in which the Germans are called upon to
00:22:08
immediately overthrow the power of Hitler and
00:22:10
rebuild Germany,
00:22:13
sitting in his cockpit, the navigator Khokhlov
00:22:16
first of all checks whether his talisman is in place
00:22:19
even before the war, taking the cards out of the on-board
00:22:22
bag, he found a wrench at the bottom,
00:22:25
although it seemed that he had to do it there, and
00:22:26
this wrench began his talisman flew with
00:22:30
him until the end of the war and invariably brought
00:22:32
good luck to his owner,
00:22:34
finally the moment came for which they had been
00:22:36
waiting for so long for the raid on Berlin against the backdrop of
00:22:39
constant retreats, losses of territories
00:22:41
and doubts that had already appeared whether the
00:22:44
Soviet Union would be able to win at all. By this
00:22:47
time, some pilots already had
00:22:49
personal motives to accommodate this way, Captain
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Grechishnikov had a
00:22:54
wife,
00:22:56
Ksenia, and two children left on the territory of occupied Belarus, and he had no
00:22:57
idea whether they were alive or not
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[music] the
00:23:04
start time had come,
00:23:07
Preobrazhensky nods his head to Khokhlov,
00:23:10
which means give a signal,
00:23:12
Lieutenant General Zhavoronkov is standing at the starting line
00:23:17
with two with flags in his hands, he
00:23:19
gives the plane permission to take off in the
00:23:21
logbook 1 entry takeoff at 21:00
00:23:39
it is useful and Berlin there were many takeoffs,
00:23:41
uncertain, almost dangerous, I
00:23:44
deeply experienced them with each of them,
00:23:47
as if I was having a blast, leaving with
00:23:50
them, my heart is being cleansed, who knows what
00:23:53
awaits them in this distant and dangerous flight on
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twin-engine wheeled aircraft over
00:23:59
the sea, then into enemy territory and finally
00:24:02
over the main well-protected lair of
00:24:06
the enemy, which was the capital of the fascist
00:24:09
state; there is heavy cloud cover over the Baltic,
00:24:13
so the plane has to climb
00:24:15
to a height of more than 6000 meters; the cable is not
00:24:17
sealed. they put on oxygen
00:24:19
masks; the temperature outside and, in
00:24:21
general, inside the plane is -40;
00:24:23
neither the fur overalls save him
00:24:25
nor the flight goggles become covered with frost;
00:24:27
and the hands in mittens
00:24:29
cannot feel the steering wheel from constant
00:24:31
physical stress and
00:24:33
pressure changes; many people begin to bleed
00:24:35
through the nose and by ears, according to calculations, the distance to
00:24:39
Berlin was eight hundred and ninety
00:24:41
kilometers, of which 700 had to be
00:24:43
flown over the sea, the route flowed at an
00:24:46
altitude of up to 7000 meters, well,
00:24:51
we didn’t have an autopilot, or a co-pilot, the
00:24:54
cabin was
00:24:56
n’t heated, the outside temperature
00:24:59
was probably 40-50 degrees there.
00:25:04
they were sitting in fur overalls, fur,
00:25:08
so to speak, that we suffered terribly from
00:25:12
this,
00:25:14
yes, no, I wouldn’t say that immediately after
00:25:20
crossing the coastline, the
00:25:23
lights of the German searchlights came on, but anti-aircraft
00:25:25
fire and fighter attacks did not
00:25:28
follow, obviously the enemy mistook the
00:25:30
planes of Preobrazhensky’s group for their
00:25:32
returning mission more In addition,
00:25:34
navigator Khokhlov claimed that he saw
00:25:37
how hospitably the lights of the German airfield turned on,
00:25:39
inviting us to land, thanks to
00:25:42
all this, ours were accurately oriented,
00:25:44
our titan came out, and there it was just a stone's throw from Berlin. The
00:25:48
main assistant in the work of the navigator
00:25:50
is, of course, a magnetic compass, but
00:25:53
sometimes this assistant became an
00:25:54
end in itself than it The closer the brighter the light of the
00:25:58
searchlights, the fury of her anti-aircraft guns were working,
00:26:00
Berlin was visible from 20 kilometers even
00:26:03
through the clouds,
00:26:04
then its lights were burning so brightly, then its lights were burning,
00:26:06
Preobrazhensky’s group saw Berlin at
00:26:09
midnight, the city lived its almost
00:26:11
peaceful life, but ten minutes before
00:26:13
reaching the target, Logan was announced
00:26:16
block by block Berlin
00:26:18
plunged into darkness and prepared
00:26:20
to defend itself, keep it up,
00:26:21
I pass it into the microphone
00:26:25
to the commander of the ship,
00:26:26
I open the bomb hatches, I remove the bombs from the
00:26:29
fuses, and when the plane approaches the
00:26:31
target, I pressed the bomb button,
00:26:34
one after another, they went down, this is for you,
00:26:38
gentlemen, fascists, for Moscow, for Leningrad,
00:26:41
for the Soviet people, I shout at full power and
00:26:45
still pressing the button, although this is
00:26:48
no longer necessary, all the bombs have been dropped and
00:26:52
are about to be achieved
00:26:55
[music]
00:26:57
out of 10 planes, only five reached Berlin; the
00:26:59
crews of the Preobrazhensky Trichyky
00:27:02
Dashkovsky Plotkin and Morgunov
00:27:05
dropped a total of thirty 100
00:27:08
kilograms 6,000 high-explosive bombs
00:27:09
were thrown in a fan, so
00:27:13
no one on the crew could say exactly where they landed, there is
00:27:14
Fokina Grechishnikova,
00:27:17
Efremova and Finyagin, and due to dense
00:27:20
clouds, they lost their orientation and
00:27:22
decided to go to alternate targets
00:27:26
after the bombs went off, the
00:27:28
gunner-radio operator, the crews of Preobrazhensky,
00:27:30
Sergeant Kratenko briefly violates the order for
00:27:33
complete radio silence sends us a
00:27:35
radiogram from Arima, and he doesn’t do it in
00:27:39
code, he goes on the air in
00:27:41
clear text my location
00:27:43
Berlin the task was completed we are returning
00:27:47
home to this day some claim
00:27:49
that there was no radiogram because it is
00:27:50
unlikely that anyone would have decided to violate the
00:27:53
strictest order arose there was great
00:27:57
doubt whether they would break out not from there or not, he was
00:28:00
already thinking that if they shot us down,
00:28:05
they would at least know that it was the Russians who bombed
00:28:08
the radiogram because it was what he
00:28:12
referred to, and then at the end of the war and beer
00:28:16
sarin was given to them by the first commandant of Berlin when he
00:28:20
radioed already to this regiment
00:28:26
a telegram of congratulations strain naval
00:28:29
pilots you were the first to bomb
00:28:32
Berlin and we finished
00:28:35
on the ground
00:28:37
after a successful air raid the planes
00:28:39
quickly left Berlin north
00:28:41
to the sea the crews had to
00:28:44
maneuver
00:28:45
evading the beams of the searchlights and avoiding the
00:28:47
zones of anti-aircraft fire
00:28:48
around the flagship aircraft exploded
00:28:51
just before 30 40 shells, but none of
00:28:54
them reached the target,
00:28:55
the crew constantly used anti-
00:28:58
aircraft maneuvers, changing
00:29:00
directions and flight altitude every half a minute,
00:29:04
the only salvation in this situation
00:29:06
is to go into the clouds, but for this you must be
00:29:08
very good at flying blind, that is,
00:29:12
rely solely on the
00:29:14
readings the device and this is psychologically
00:29:17
very difficult because instinctively you
00:29:19
first of all
00:29:20
trust your feelings, they can be
00:29:23
deceptive, for example, it seems to you that you are
00:29:25
gaining height, but in fact you are
00:29:28
rapidly losing it,
00:29:29
fall out of the blue clouds and become
00:29:32
easy prey for enemy fighters and anti-aircraft
00:29:35
artillery, the first rule
00:29:38
of the pilot and the navigator whose plane was caught in the
00:29:40
rays of the searchlights should under no circumstances
00:29:43
look out the window and you will simply
00:29:44
go blind, and the blind crew cannot drive the
00:29:47
car, all attention only to the
00:29:49
dashboard and fishing lines, a sharp maneuver to move to the
00:29:52
side, one front-line pilot once
00:29:55
said I tried in the afternoon I couldn’t repeat what
00:29:57
I did at night, escaping the rays,
00:30:00
nor did it become scary, it’s clear that that night
00:30:07
in the barn, or rather at the Kabul airfield,
00:30:10
no one slept, probably every five minutes
00:30:12
one of the mechanics approached the
00:30:15
regimental commissar Gregory for food from
00:30:16
the body and asked if there were any then at
00:30:20
dawn, for the sake of news, he announced that he had received a
00:30:23
radiogram from the flagship ship, the
00:30:24
task was completed, and then everyone began
00:30:28
to wait, but not just but for all
00:30:32
the planes to return and without losses, all the time
00:30:35
that the plane spends on the ground it
00:30:37
is in the hands of technicians, probably
00:30:39
only the pilots know what kind of work as soon as the
00:30:42
mechanic forced the worn-out,
00:30:48
battle-damaged vehicles to take to the skies again and again, and when
00:30:50
the crew left for a combat mission, the technicians
00:30:53
faced a new test,
00:30:54
it was called waiting for their people on the ground
00:30:59
when before the meeting I was what struck me
00:31:03
first, everywhere you look, there is an order
00:31:06
on everyone’s chest and
00:31:10
Many stars and heroes of the Soviet Union have medals all over their chests,
00:31:16
but somehow they, I would say, greet each other with restraint
00:31:20
and suddenly
00:31:23
some one appears and I just want to say grandfather,
00:31:28
but one two medals there are three orders, maybe there is
00:31:32
one there all but the pilots are heroes
00:31:37
rushing to them, as if I
00:31:42
had met my own mother, I began to ask about how,
00:31:46
well, the same Kolesnichenko answered
00:31:50
not just my dear, it’s burning, any pilot
00:31:55
knows victory in the air is forged on the ground
00:31:59
six hours and 50 minutes after our
00:32:03
takeoff, Evgeniy Nikolaevich Preobrazhensky
00:32:06
landed perfectly on the first approach the
00:32:09
flagship plane and then
00:32:12
the rest approached, we taxied to the parking lot and
00:32:14
sank out of the cockpits onto the ground; my back ached; my
00:32:17
arms were not yet warmed up from overexertion; my
00:32:20
legs were trembling; my eyes hurt; Preobrazhensky
00:32:23
lay down on the grass right under the plane
00:32:25
of the plane; both sergeants and I sank down next to each other;
00:32:28
I wanted to lie like that without moving on
00:32:32
my native In the friendly land, about
00:32:34
five minutes later,
00:32:36
Zhavoronkov’s passenger car drove up to the plane, we got up from
00:32:39
Preobrazhensky,
00:32:41
Comrade Lieutenant General
00:32:44
of Aviation reported in a hoarse voice, the combat mission
00:32:47
was completed at the Kabul airfield,
00:32:52
all the crews returned, this is a great rarity for
00:32:55
the first months of the war, Semyon Fedorovich
00:32:57
Zhavoronkov met the pilots right on the
00:32:59
field, there were two of him a box of cognac, but the
00:33:02
crews
00:33:03
only had the strength to take a small
00:33:06
sip each, and then everyone lay down and fell asleep
00:33:08
right here under the wings, and on the 1st
00:33:11
bombing of Berlin, Stalin immediately
00:33:13
said this fact has historical
00:33:16
significance to say that the Germans said
00:33:17
that the British bombed, more than 100
00:33:20
planes flew through the city no more than
00:33:22
fifteen six of which were shot down,
00:33:25
to which the English radio sarcastically noted
00:33:27
that that night not a single British
00:33:29
plane flew towards Berlin
00:33:31
due to bad weather conditions, the
00:33:34
Soviet Information Bureau put an end to this debate,
00:33:36
Yuri Levitan reported on the
00:33:39
Soviet Union's bomb attack on Berlin at two o'clock in the
00:33:47
morning on August 9, Stalin dictates
00:33:50
this telegram to Malenkov in the Kremlin to
00:33:52
oblige the 81st air division, led by the
00:33:54
division commander Vodopyanov, from August 9 to 10
00:33:58
or on one of the following days,
00:34:01
depending on weather conditions, to carry out a
00:34:02
raid on Berlin during a raid, in addition to
00:34:05
high-explosive bombs,
00:34:06
it is necessary to drop on Berlin
00:34:08
incendiary bombs of small and large
00:34:11
caliber in case the engine began to
00:34:14
fail on the way to Berlin, even Stalin
00:34:16
knew about, to put it mildly, the unreliability of
00:34:19
the engines and to have the
00:34:21
city of Königsberg as a backup target for bombing Joseph
00:34:24
Stalin the Vodopyanov division
00:34:28
had
00:34:29
ER-2 and pe- 8, which came to replace the
00:34:33
completely outdated TB-3,
00:34:35
for their time they were outstanding
00:34:38
machines capable of lifting up to five thousand
00:34:40
kilograms of bombs;
00:34:44
nevertheless, the db-3 was the first to go to Berlin; it’s
00:34:46
all about the M40 diesel engines
00:34:50
that were installed on 1 7 and r2 before the war did
00:34:54
not go through the full cycle of flight tests
00:34:56
at high altitude, they very often stalled,
00:34:58
and restarting in flight was not always
00:35:00
possible, and Vodopyanov, like Stalin,
00:35:03
knew about this; the commander of the 81st Air Division,
00:35:07
Vodopyanov became AWOL; the fact is
00:35:10
that on the first day of the war, he opens
00:35:13
the door to the office of the head of the Northern Sea Route,
00:35:16
Otto Yulcha Shmita and demands to send him
00:35:19
to the front for something, but Yulchik
00:35:21
politely notes that supplying troops along the
00:35:24
northern sea route without ice
00:35:26
reconnaissance aircraft is impossible, so he cannot let
00:35:29
him go from July in
00:35:31
any way, this refusal did not
00:35:34
discourage Mikhail Vasiliev at all, he is simply
00:35:36
gathering everyone who wants to go to the front hijacks a
00:35:40
GST seaplane
00:35:42
and flies on it to Moscow.
00:35:44
On approach to Moscow, the plane was intercepted by
00:35:46
our fighters, fortunately they did not
00:35:48
immediately open fire,
00:35:49
but upon approaching closer they established visual
00:35:52
contact and recognized the face of one of the first
00:35:55
heroes of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Vasilets
00:35:58
Vodopyanov, landing the car on the Khimki
00:36:02
Vodopyanov Reservoir immediately goes personally
00:36:05
to Stalin, he managed to convince him that
00:36:07
the place of people from the list of those willing and his,
00:36:10
including the combat units of the Air Force,
00:36:13
from Stalin's office, water-drinkers are leaving Stalin's office with a
00:36:16
new appointment, now he is the commander of the 81st
00:36:20
long-range air division, it must be
00:36:22
said that he has no experience in commanding such
00:36:25
formations it was, but already at the
00:36:28
end of July Mikhail Vasilyevich reported
00:36:30
on the full combat readiness of the division at that
00:36:34
time Vodopyanova was a well-known pilot throughout the
00:36:36
union; he was called a
00:36:38
pilot of any weather in the thirty-
00:36:40
fourth year for rescuing people
00:36:42
caught on an ice floe after the crash of the
00:36:44
steamer Chelyuskin Vodopyanova;
00:36:46
six more pilots were
00:36:48
awarded the title for the first time heroes of the Soviet Union on
00:36:51
May 21, 1937,
00:36:54
Vodopyanov landed a four-engine
00:36:56
plane at the North Pole,
00:36:57
which no one had done before, and landed the
00:37:00
winterers of the drifting station
00:37:02
North Pole 1 there.
00:37:10
participation in the Soviet-Finnish war,
00:37:13
Mikhail Vasiliev was awarded the Order of the
00:37:15
Red Banner,
00:37:17
he was a matrix pilot even before the Chelyuskin epic,
00:37:21
and I remember someone,
00:37:28
either in a magazine or in a newspaper,
00:37:31
reacted so ironically to this dialogue, what can
00:37:35
you get from him? a matrix pilot delivered
00:37:38
newspapers they say from Moscow to Leningrad, and a
00:37:42
matrix pilot is one who flies
00:37:47
when the entire aviation is sitting on the ground and the
00:37:50
air cannot show its nose, and
00:37:54
its contingent was also mainly
00:37:57
civilian and polar pilots, and
00:38:00
therefore, in general, it was not particularly so and
00:38:06
not they were ceremonious with this hierarchy when he
00:38:10
started approaching the formations, I’ll tell you, he
00:38:13
said great, the guys answered him
00:38:16
great, Misha, Preobrazhensky’s group made their second flight the very
00:38:21
next night after the first, the night of August 9,
00:38:24
despite the fact that enemy anti-aircraft guns
00:38:26
met them already in the area of ​​the skeet for this
00:38:29
flight was even more successful,
00:38:32
10 planes broke through to Berlin and dropped
00:38:34
60,100 kilogram bombs on the city.
00:38:37
By the way,
00:38:39
gunner-radio operator Kratenko, who,
00:38:41
according to Preobrazhensky, allowed himself an
00:38:43
extra glass of cognac to celebrate the success of the
00:38:47
first operation, did not participate in this flight, he was replaced by Sergeant
00:38:49
Vasily Archers and you say
00:38:51
People's Commissar 100 grams In newspapers around the
00:38:55
world, reports began to appear about
00:38:57
Soviet raids on the capital of Germany,
00:38:59
for example, the London telegraph
00:39:01
agency reported that the Germans tried to hide the
00:39:04
fact that Berlin was bombed by Soviet
00:39:06
planes, but then the Berliners were forced to
00:39:09
admit this fact,
00:39:11
who at one time assured
00:39:13
that their city was not in danger of an
00:39:16
air attack now they know that
00:39:19
the capital is vulnerable to raids by
00:39:21
both British and Soviet aviation, this is a
00:39:24
very important psychological factor
00:39:26
that will have a great influence on the
00:39:28
morale of the Germans
00:39:32
[music]
00:39:33
but all this meant nothing in comparison
00:39:37
with the fact that one crew did not return from the flight,
00:39:40
we were missing for this times 4
00:39:43
wonderful combat friends of the
00:39:46
flight commander, senior lieutenant Finyagin, and the
00:39:49
navigator, lieutenant, wild
00:39:51
gunner-radio operator,
00:39:53
hassle on the air gunner of the
00:39:55
Red Navy, he was perfectly
00:39:58
prepared, the crew,
00:39:59
foreman Kudryashov, reported that he saw an
00:40:02
explosion in the air similar to the explosion of an airplane,
00:40:05
but no one in the regiment wanted to believe in death
00:40:08
Finyagin crew,
00:40:10
after all, it happened more than once that the pilots of
00:40:12
shot down planes returned after some time,
00:40:15
this time our hopes did not
00:40:18
come true in the
00:40:26
early morning of August 10, Vodopyanova’s division flies
00:40:29
from Kazan here to the Pushkin airfield near Leningrad,
00:40:32
the order to
00:40:34
carry out the operation they receive 9 everything
00:40:37
is being prepared in a hurry part crews had
00:40:39
never taken off with a full
00:40:41
bomb load
00:40:42
and in the evening they had to take off for Berlin for
00:40:46
most of the planes it would be a one-way flight
00:40:57
the division suffered its first losses already at the
00:40:59
start of r2
00:41:01
Lieutenant Alexander Ignatievich Amal, which is
00:41:03
why the future twice hero of the Soviet
00:41:05
Union
00:41:06
began his take-off run the engines pulled poorly
00:41:09
and were too long there was not
00:41:11
enough runway, the plane rolled out of it
00:41:14
and miraculously did not explode, the crew at 8
00:41:17
Major Egorov was less fortunate
00:41:19
immediately after taking off from the ground, his
00:41:21
2 right engines failed
00:41:30
[music]
00:41:43
you hurt like 4 tons of bombs, fortunately they did
00:41:46
not detonate and five members
00:41:49
crew of 11 managed to survive the
00:41:51
disaster, the commander of the Air Force, General
00:41:54
Zhigarev, gives the order
00:41:56
to stop the operation and only those
00:41:58
crews that are already in the sky by this time go to Berlin
00:42:01
and this is only 10 aircraft, the length of
00:42:06
their flight route was 2700
00:42:08
kilometers, most of the way
00:42:10
lay over the Baltic in bypassing areas of
00:42:13
strong German air defense
00:42:17
turned out to be domestic but no less
00:42:20
dangerous than German; already on the approach to the
00:42:22
Gulf of Finland, Major Degunino’s plane fired at their
00:42:25
own anti-aircraft guns and then began to finish off the
00:42:27
fighters in vain; Gunin rocks the
00:42:30
car from wing to wing and the navigator
00:42:32
Captain Vasiliev fires signal
00:42:34
flares meaning I'm in despair, they
00:42:37
give the command to return
00:42:39
fire, but six of the 11 managed to leave the burning plane late,
00:42:46
Vodopyanov's plane was also attacked by
00:42:48
his own at the beginning of the journey, but he managed to
00:42:50
reach the target and bomb Berlin,
00:42:53
together with the commander,
00:42:55
five more planes dropped bombs on the capital of Germany b8
00:42:58
majors Kurban and the gloomy Er-2 captain
00:43:01
Stepanov and lieutenants Malinin and
00:43:04
Kubushka four planes for various
00:43:06
reasons did not reach Berlin; the crew of
00:43:09
captain Stepanov went missing on the way back
00:43:11
and to this day his fate
00:43:14
remains unknown due to engine failure,
00:43:17
three crews had to commit
00:43:18
forced landing of the ER-2 long
00:43:21
capsule on the way back
00:43:22
was fired upon by their own and the 16th crew rescued by
00:43:26
parachutes in the crew of a gloomy major, a
00:43:31
military technician of the first rank Smirnov died tragically,
00:43:35
he did not notice how the hose of his
00:43:37
oxygen mask was disconnected and died of hypoxia, the
00:43:42
fate of the crew of
00:43:44
Senior Lieutenant Alexander was tragic Panfilov,
00:43:47
one of the first millionaire pilots,
00:43:50
that's what civil aviation pilots were called in the 30s
00:43:52
who flew
00:43:54
more than one million kilometers after the
00:43:56
failure of engine 2, they went into
00:43:58
forced flight over Finland and during landing,
00:44:01
5 people died, including
00:44:03
Alexander Ivanovich himself,
00:44:04
the rest made their way to their own and the very
00:44:06
front line they were taken prisoner at
00:44:08
approximately the same time from the
00:44:10
territory occupied by the Germans and Estonia,
00:44:13
Vodopyanov’s crew was forced to go to the forced operation. Even
00:44:17
at the beginning of the operation, Vodopyanov’s plane
00:44:19
was attacked by its own fighters and
00:44:22
16 who fired at it over the Baltic
00:44:25
Sea, despite identification signals, they did
00:44:28
not stop eating glasses attack
00:44:33
therefore Vodopyanov was forced to
00:44:36
order to return fire and
00:44:38
fortunately 16 and immediately stopped shelling
00:44:50
[music]
00:44:56
navigator Vodopyanov Stepenko, when approaching the
00:44:59
target,
00:45:00
deviated from the course and went straight to ours,
00:45:02
those there suddenly flashed
00:45:05
air defense searchlights
00:45:07
instantly blinded Vodopyanov, fortunately the
00:45:10
co-pilot pusat saved sight, it was
00:45:13
he who drove the car further 4 the engine
00:45:18
had to be turned off
00:45:19
due to a failure of the oil system, there
00:45:24
was less than half an hour left before Berlin, ice
00:45:26
and the speed of the Pe-8 fuselage whistled, the wind whistled, the
00:45:29
seals flew down, the 4-
00:45:32
ton plane, lightened, immediately soared up
00:45:36
[music]
00:45:38
[applause]
00:45:41
on the way back we
00:45:44
managed to dodge anti-aircraft fire with difficulty near
00:45:46
Königsberg, fragments of anti-aircraft shells
00:45:49
again clattered on the casing and as a result the
00:45:52
3rd fuel tank of kerosene to the house was
00:45:55
no longer enough for the assault ht foam stubbornly
00:45:58
drove 4 motor giants home over
00:46:00
Estonia they began to fall the engines
00:46:03
stopped it became quiet in the cabin, the altitude
00:46:06
was only 1800 meters and the plane was
00:46:09
descending quickly what to do to jump with a
00:46:11
parachute means to fall into the hands of the
00:46:13
Nazis sit in an open place they
00:46:15
will shoot there is only one exit sit in a dense
00:46:18
forest away from the roads the Germans will
00:46:21
not get there soon whether we crash or not
00:46:24
I’m talking about this I didn’t think about getting ready for
00:46:26
landing,
00:46:27
where are we going to land? Busan asks,
00:46:29
drop the helm, I’ll land myself, one by one,
00:46:31
people went to the back of the plane, where there is
00:46:33
less risk of dying during landing,
00:46:35
the altitude was reduced with lightning speed, you could
00:46:38
only hear the whistle of the wind,
00:46:39
the forest was rapidly flying towards me, I
00:46:42
leveled the plane, trying to
00:46:44
lose as much speed as possible.
00:46:46
our car first touched the
00:46:48
tops of the trees with its tail, then
00:46:52
lay with its outstretched wings on a dense forest, as if a
00:46:55
terrible storm swept over the forest, breaking branches
00:46:57
and uprooting trees,
00:47:00
silence immediately set in, the fuselage with its
00:47:04
wings
00:47:05
sank to the very ground, the
00:47:15
crew gradually began to get out of the destroyed plane, amazingly
00:47:18
but no one was seriously wounded for several
00:47:21
days they made their way through the occupied
00:47:23
territory to find out if there were Germans ahead or
00:47:26
not only in Estonian farmsteads and
00:47:28
no one there spoke Russian,
00:47:30
but Vodopyanov’s co-pilot was Endel
00:47:34
Karlovich [ __ ], the future hero of the Soviet
00:47:36
Union, an
00:47:37
Estonian born in Siberia, he knew very well
00:47:40
language and only he communicated with the local population, the
00:47:42
rest, just in case, were
00:47:45
hiding at that time, and probably
00:47:47
thanks to this, after a while
00:47:49
they were able to go out to their settlers from
00:47:53
Estonia who went to conquer the lands
00:47:56
of Siberia, they mostly lived in separate
00:47:59
farmsteads and the language of communication there was Russian,
00:48:02
but the family's home language was Spanish on the
00:48:04
morning of August 11,
00:48:07
only one plane will return to the Pushkin airfield, this r two
00:48:09
lieutenants Malinina will arrive later,
00:48:13
gloomy, and even on the night of the operation, two hours
00:48:15
after the launch, due to the failure of
00:48:17
two engines, the Peregudov crew returned as a
00:48:20
success, such an operation cannot be called
00:48:23
the main reason of course,
00:48:25
failure of engines, plus the fact that there
00:48:27
was less than a day for preparation and, more
00:48:30
importantly, a complete lack of coordination with
00:48:34
our own air defense,
00:48:36
such cases existed and such cases occurred due to the fact
00:48:42
that
00:48:47
our planes were classified, we knew our planes, but we did
00:48:53
n’t know which planes at all
00:48:58
other pilots take off, especially in
00:49:01
fighter aviation, for them
00:49:03
our bombers were some kind of
00:49:07
curiosity and they sometimes
00:49:10
fired at them despite the fact that 6
00:49:16
bombers still reached
00:49:18
Berlin and were bombed, the losses were
00:49:21
unacceptable, the water drunks understood this perfectly well
00:49:24
and did not bear responsibility for themselves
00:49:26
filmed entering Stalin's office as a
00:49:28
division commander with the rank of brigade commander, he
00:49:32
came out of there as an ordinary pilot with the
00:49:35
same rank of brigade commander,
00:49:36
and they say it was his initiative, one way
00:49:39
or another, the division was headed by Lieutenant Colonel
00:49:41
Golovanov, who in a year would become
00:49:44
the commander of all long-range aviation,
00:49:52
Stalin decides to increase the power of
00:49:55
strikes in Berlin, for this nasa remo, a
00:49:57
special
00:49:59
special purpose aviation group of Major
00:50:02
Shchelkunov is being sent, the squadron of Captain Tikhonov
00:50:05
will not be based at the AST airfield and will be
00:50:07
equipped with more modern
00:50:11
db-3 bombers; later they
00:50:13
will be called IL-4; however, out of the 20
00:50:17
aircraft promised to General Zhavoronkov,
00:50:20
the army command allocates 15 2 of
00:50:23
which remained on the mainland
00:50:26
due to a malfunction, one
00:50:28
fell into the Gulf of Finland during the flight and sank the
00:50:32
DB-3 f aircraft was a deep
00:50:35
modernization of the DB-3 b
00:50:37
new technology made it possible to reduce the
00:50:39
aircraft assembly time by half; it was
00:50:42
equipped with more powerful
00:50:43
m88 engines; the aircraft was equipped modern
00:50:47
navigation devices, compared to the
00:50:50
DB-3 b, increased the flight range and
00:50:53
defensive capabilities;
00:50:56
unfortunately, the reinforcements arrived at the barn
00:50:59
and could not fully
00:51:01
express themselves; the engines on the planes were
00:51:02
worn out and some had
00:51:04
completely exhausted their engine life. Major
00:51:06
Shchelkunov writes in his report that more
00:51:09
modern DB-3 f do not justify themselves and
00:51:12
are asked to replace them with DB-3 b Another
00:51:15
problem was that the pilots and
00:51:18
navigators of the gunners of Shchelkunov’s group were
00:51:20
recruited from different crews, as they say, they
00:51:22
were not a rally, and the pilots of Captain
00:51:25
Tikhonov’s group had no combat experience at all
00:51:28
because that they arrived from the Far East,
00:51:29
but nevertheless, the hope of doubling the force of the
00:51:32
strikes on Berlin appeared before the
00:51:35
third flight, I didn’t find
00:51:37
the key in my bag, I was already in a fever, the happiness
00:51:41
disappeared, I leaned out of the cockpit, I shouted to the
00:51:45
aircraft mechanic, foreman Kolesnichenko,
00:51:47
where did it go lie down from my cockpit
00:51:49
urgently give me this key
00:51:51
Preobrazhensky laughs, why do you need to
00:51:54
taxi this key faster from and
00:51:56
started a search, and until I find
00:51:59
the key, we won’t taxi anywhere, the
00:52:02
mechanic opened the lower hatch of my cabin and
00:52:04
handed over the key, making sure that it was the
00:52:07
same one, I put the talisman key in its original
00:52:11
place in the on-board bag and we began to
00:52:13
taxi to the start, now it’s
00:52:17
funny to remember it, but then we believed in happiness
00:52:20
and while we were flying on the flagship, the key
00:52:24
was always in the on-board bag. On August 12,
00:52:29
1941, the chief of staff of the Supreme
00:52:31
Command of the German Armed Forces,
00:52:33
Field Marshal Keitel,
00:52:35
gives the order to the headquarters of Army Group North
00:52:39
with you behind the groups As soon as
00:52:42
the situation allows, the joint efforts of the formations of the
00:52:44
ground forces of
00:52:46
aviation and the navy should
00:52:48
eliminate the enemy air base
00:52:51
on the islands of Daga and Saray, and
00:52:54
at the same time it is especially important to destroy the
00:52:56
enemy dramas for which
00:52:59
air raids are carried out on the
00:53:01
Berlin Bern on
00:53:02
August 13 here at the school premises in in
00:53:05
the town, a solemn
00:53:07
event was celebrated by Colonel Preobrazhensky,
00:53:10
Captain Grechishnikov, Efremov, Plotkina,
00:53:12
and Khokhlov,
00:53:13
were awarded the high ranks of heroes of
00:53:15
the Soviet Union, another 13 pilots were
00:53:18
awarded the Order of Lenin, and a
00:53:20
total of 55 people received the Order of the
00:53:23
Red Banner of Battle and the Red
00:53:24
Star, and here in the assembly hall an amateur concert was held
00:53:28
the pilots were present, the technical composition
00:53:31
of course was a local resident,
00:53:32
senior lieutenants Efremov came out onto the stage and the
00:53:35
levers, passing by, dragged
00:53:39
me along with them and we began to sing the
00:53:42
then-famous song, walking along a familiar
00:53:45
path and picked up by the whole hall,
00:53:48
Preobrazhensky stood in the first row and
00:53:51
conducted further to the accompaniment of a button
00:53:55
accordion on in which he played beautifully,
00:53:58
Vologda ditties sounded,
00:54:01
it was during the day and in the evening,
00:54:05
unexpectedly, the Germans gave us all a big concert. On
00:54:08
August 13, the Germans are seriously taking
00:54:13
Kabul, 40 bombers are participating in the raid, anti-
00:54:17
aircraft guns are firing at them, and the gunners are firing at them from
00:54:20
db-3s standing on the ground,
00:54:21
as a result of the 10th day two planes were killed
00:54:24
with his wife, including the Preobrazhensky plane, navigator
00:54:27
Khokhlov crawled on his knees among the wreckage
00:54:30
and looked for his talisman, his lucky
00:54:32
wrench, the talisman was found and
00:54:34
continued to fly with Khokhol
00:54:36
and Preobrazhensky, but already in a car with
00:54:38
tactical number 2 4 raid on Berlin
00:54:43
took place on the night of August 16 was the
00:54:46
largest,
00:54:48
13 aircraft from
00:54:51
naval aviation and 9 from ground aviation took part in it, they reached the
00:54:54
target, 10 and 7 aircraft, respectively, they
00:54:58
dropped ten and a half
00:55:00
tons of high-explosive and incendiary bombs on the city, which is
00:55:03
almost half of the total number of bombs
00:55:06
dropped on Berlin, the rest of the planes
00:55:11
left for backup targets, including the crew of
00:55:13
Colonel Preobrazhensky, due to the
00:55:15
wear of the engines, they would not have reached
00:55:17
Berlin and therefore were bombed by VIN pressure,
00:55:19
and upon returning during a
00:55:21
night landing at the Kabul airfield,
00:55:23
two crews of lieutenants Kravchenko and Alexander crashed and died;
00:55:28
another plane
00:55:29
was sent for repairs at the
00:55:30
carefree airfield near Leningrad and in the area of ​​​​the
00:55:32
village of Ticks Vice, he is shot down by our
00:55:35
fighter, the culprit of this tragedy was not found because they did
00:55:38
not particularly look for him. On
00:55:44
August 17, another of our planes was attacked by
00:55:47
his own fighter, gunner Kravtsov was killed,
00:55:50
and over the next two days the
00:55:52
losses only increased, enemy anti-aircraft guns
00:55:55
the fighter is beaten by seven of our vehicles,
00:55:58
seven crew members are killed, six are
00:56:00
captured or go missing,
00:56:02
losses are growing and the damage to the enemy capital is
00:56:06
decreasing, but instead of 500
00:56:09
kilogram bombs or two bombs of
00:56:12
two hundred and fifty kilograms each, not the walls of
00:56:15
Berlin Dutton,
00:56:16
that is, take two five hundred is such a
00:56:20
question Stalin's question arose from the Supreme
00:56:23
Commander-in-Chief, it was
00:56:27
quite reasonable there was a big
00:56:29
difference in the destruction caused by bombs
00:56:32
weighing one hundred two hundred and fifty 500 and 1000
00:56:36
kilograms
00:56:37
[music]
00:56:39
my arguments based on the opinion of
00:56:42
Zhavoronkov that such a load for an
00:56:45
aircraft was unacceptable
00:56:46
seemed unconvincing; an
00:56:49
experienced pilot was invited to insert - tester
00:56:51
Vladimir Konstantinovich Kokkinaki, he
00:56:55
knew the DB-3 planes very well; he was
00:56:58
sent to aviation units more than once to
00:57:00
show him how to work with the
00:57:02
equipment and squeeze everything out of it in terms of the
00:57:06
flight range and carrying capacity of the
00:57:09
machine, Kokkinaki’s point of view differed
00:57:12
from mine, you can take two five hundred I remember
00:57:16
he stated that I was temporarily compared to
00:57:21
having received Stalin’s instructions, Vladimir
00:57:23
Kokkinaki flies here in a barn and
00:57:25
in order to prove by his own example the
00:57:27
TB-3 bdb club aircraft can rise with a bomb
00:57:30
weighing one ton, while he obviously does
00:57:33
not know that the surface at the
00:57:35
Kagul airfield is unpaved and the wheels get stuck,
00:57:37
especially in rainy weather, the engine is
00:57:40
worn out, I will have to fly to
00:57:41
the maximum range at the maximum
00:57:43
altitude and, as a rule, in difficult
00:57:45
weather conditions, having come under anti-aircraft
00:57:48
fire, the pilots will have to very
00:57:49
actively maneuver what to do with
00:57:52
such a bomb load is unrealistic here
00:57:55
on Kagula, like monks, of course I talk with the
00:57:58
pilots but their arguments do not convince him and
00:58:00
he gives instructions to load a ton into the bambo hatches,
00:58:03
because Stalin’s order is an order. On
00:58:07
August 20, for the experiment, the two
00:58:09
best cars in terms of
00:58:11
reliability are allocated that are in the barn and
00:58:13
captain Grechishnikov from senior
00:58:16
lieutenant Bogachev
00:58:17
Grechishnikov hang a fap 1000 bomb
00:58:21
one ton and Bogacheva 2 fact 500 with a
00:58:24
total weight of also one ton the
00:58:28
most experienced pilot of the Grechishnikov taxied to the
00:58:31
very edge of the starting line
00:58:33
in order to have the maximum distance for
00:58:36
takeoff,
00:58:37
tested the engines and began to take off, we all
00:58:40
saw how the plane ran most
00:58:42
of the runway from the ground and never
00:58:45
breaks away only at the very end of the airfield it
00:58:48
is possible to lift the plane off the ground but
00:58:51
it does not have enough speed, ready to
00:58:53
fall every second the plane went
00:58:56
over the fence and the bush
00:58:58
touched the ground again, demolished 6 turned to the right
00:59:02
and caught fire,
00:59:04
fortunately no one was hurt, it was
00:59:07
the turn of
00:59:08
Bogachev’s crew, running along the entire
00:59:11
runway landing strip they were never
00:59:13
able to get away from beyond the airfield
00:59:16
the plane collided with an obstacle and
00:59:18
exploded none of the crew survived
00:59:21
which naki silently, without looking at the pilots,
00:59:24
gets into his I-16 fighter and
00:59:27
flies away they say that on that day Vasil
00:59:32
Nikonovich Grechishnikov chose the entire reserve
00:59:34
luck, which was released to him
00:59:37
two months later, on October 24, 1941, they bomb a
00:59:41
German convoy in the Novgorod region,
00:59:43
the plane catches fire, they fail to knock down the flames,
00:59:45
and then the crew decides to
00:59:48
send the car into accumulations of German
00:59:50
equipment, repeating the feat. On the same
00:59:54
day, the regiment receives a long-awaited letter
00:59:56
from his wife. Grechishnikov Ksenia that
00:59:59
she is alive with her children in a
01:00:01
partisan detachment; the hero of the Soviet
01:00:03
Union Vasily Nikolaevich Gorchichnikov will
01:00:06
never know about this
01:00:08
[music] the
01:00:12
day after the tragedy on
01:00:16
August 21, the group of Shchelkunov
01:00:18
and Tikhonov return to the rear
01:00:20
airfield, the raids on Berlin continued
01:00:24
on their carrying out became increasingly
01:00:26
difficult and dangerous on the night of
01:00:30
August 23-24, not a single crew reached Berlin
01:00:32
due to overheating of worn-out engines,
01:00:35
the pilots threw a bomb at reserve targets,
01:00:38
and during landing suddenly lost
01:00:41
altitude and the plane of Lieutenant Dashkovsky fell and exploded
01:00:43
together
01:00:45
navigator Nikolaev and
01:00:47
gunner-radio operator Elkin died with the commander; reason unknown;
01:00:49
possible combat injury of the pilot; perhaps
01:00:52
just fatigue; it is possible that it was
01:00:54
during these days that Captain Plotkin said his
01:00:57
famous phrase; we live according to
01:00:59
Darwin’s laws; the strongest fly;
01:01:06
they were landing not entirely
01:01:09
correctly; so let’s say about them they returned for the
01:01:13
second round, but since their
01:01:16
reaction was not the same and they were very tired, there was
01:01:20
not enough speed and the plane
01:01:25
fell over at the turn, that is, they
01:01:28
flew to their airfield and at their home
01:01:32
door
01:01:33
it seems they suffered an accident, the situation with the
01:01:36
supply of us remo was getting worse every
01:01:39
day cargo delivery was carried out mainly by
01:01:42
sea with the help of minesweepers, German
01:01:45
aircraft destroyed three of them with all
01:01:47
the crews, more than 150 people, and
01:01:50
after our troops left Tallinn on August 28,
01:01:53
communication by sea stopped altogether
01:01:56
on the last summer night, after a
01:01:58
ten-day break, our planes
01:02:01
were bombing Berlin again this time it was possible to
01:02:04
lift 6 planes into the air, one of
01:02:06
which the plane to Lieutenant Rusakov did
01:02:08
not return from the assignment,
01:02:10
presumably he reached the capital of
01:02:12
Germany but went missing upon
01:02:14
return, in addition to the fact that the many-
01:02:17
hour flight took place in conditions of the
01:02:19
constant danger of attack from
01:02:22
enemy fighters or anti-aircraft guns and the temperature in the
01:02:25
cockpit it reached -40;
01:02:27
we must not forget that
01:02:29
the mdb 3 is very difficult to control physically;
01:02:33
it was unstable longitudinally; it
01:02:39
hung on your hands all the time; it could not be
01:02:43
abandoned
01:02:45
even for a short time; this plane, even
01:02:50
adjusted as if for
01:02:52
horizontal flight, had
01:02:54
some kind of then it’s not a definite trend or
01:02:57
it will definitely start to bite down and
01:03:00
give up control or, on the contrary, it will
01:03:02
go up,
01:03:04
despite the fact that the effectiveness of
01:03:06
the air raid is sharply decreasing and the headquarters
01:03:09
still does not receive an order to
01:03:11
stop operations. On September 2,
01:03:14
only two crews take to the skies, and on
01:03:17
September 4 six aircraft are on the combat course,
01:03:19
one of which does not
01:03:21
return is the plane of Lieutenant
01:03:24
Melgunov
01:03:25
[music] the
01:03:37
crew of Afanasy Fokin on the way back
01:03:40
was attacked by German fighters,
01:03:42
the navigator,
01:03:43
Senior Lieutenant Shevchenko, was killed, but the plane
01:03:45
managed to escape without navigation, they went off
01:03:48
course Fokin decided to fly until the
01:03:50
fuel was completely exhausted with the hope of reaching
01:03:52
his territory, having once again
01:03:54
broken through the clouds to look around the
01:03:57
area, he saw an anti-aircraft battery,
01:03:59
the fuel was running out, he had to sit down
01:04:02
for the meeting, the soldiers armed with rifles fled, they were
01:04:06
lucky, after this flight
01:04:11
only nine serviceable vehicles remained in service on September 6,
01:04:14
during a German air raid six
01:04:16
of them were with his wife on the ground 1 was damaged,
01:04:19
the gunner-radio operator Fedoseev was killed, everyone then
01:04:23
noticed with what accuracy the Germans
01:04:25
approached the targets, as if someone was
01:04:27
aiming their lands
01:04:32
went in a row and suddenly the plowman plows strangely,
01:04:39
he doesn’t plow along, as it should be, somehow
01:04:42
diagonally
01:04:43
leads a furrow, and when we looked closely,
01:04:47
it was precisely aimed at fuel depots,
01:04:51
after three aircraft remained in the air group,
01:04:54
the question of further
01:04:56
bombing of Berlin disappeared by itself;
01:04:58
now the task of primary importance
01:05:00
was to bring Preobrazhensky’s group to the
01:05:03
mainland; in three days, they managed to
01:05:05
evacuate 80 people, mostly these are the
01:05:08
flight crews,
01:05:09
which means about 100 specialists from the
01:05:13
maintenance group
01:05:14
left on the island,
01:05:16
local residents say that they went
01:05:18
into the forest and organized a fortified
01:05:20
camp there and then joined the test that
01:05:23
fell to the west under the pressure of the Germans of the
01:05:25
Sary garrison, we know nothing more about their fate
01:05:28
most likely
01:05:31
they fought their last battle somewhere in the
01:05:33
area of ​​​​Cape Cheese,
01:05:37
raids on Moscow with varying intensity
01:05:39
and destructive forces continued until the
01:05:41
spring of forty-two and then
01:05:43
happened only sporadically, despite the fact
01:05:47
that the front was only two hundred
01:05:48
kilometers from the capital
01:05:50
for two years German bombers
01:05:52
destroyed, damaged about five thousand
01:05:54
buildings, killed more than two thousand people,
01:06:01
the Germans launched their last air attack on
01:06:04
June 9, 1943, and two
01:06:08
months later, on August 5, the
01:06:10
sky over Moscow lit up again, but
01:06:13
not with the rays of searchlights and
01:06:15
shell tracers, but with a salute in honor of the troops
01:06:17
who liberated the eagle and Belgorod,
01:06:19
the war retreated from the city when the
01:06:23
first raids took place, after all,
01:06:30
leaflets were even published with the names of the pilots with
01:06:34
portraits of the pilots. After the
01:06:38
first bombings, Russian people began
01:06:43
to talk, think and write in newspapers that
01:06:47
before 1 they flew through the sky to Berlin,
01:06:51
then on the ground, too, we will reach debates about the
01:06:54
expediency of our The bombing of
01:06:56
Berlin in August 1941 is still ongoing
01:06:58
because our losses were very noticeable
01:07:01
and the damage we inflicted on Germany was
01:07:04
insignificant, as it seems to us, the Americans put an end to
01:07:08
this dispute back in 1942. On
01:07:10
April 18,
01:07:13
Lieutenant Colonel Doolittle’s group
01:07:15
consisting of 16 bombers
01:07:18
takes off from the Hornet aircraft carrier and heads
01:07:21
for Tokyo, all the crew know that this is a one-way ticket
01:07:25
after they are bombed, in the best
01:07:27
case, they will face an emergency landing somewhere
01:07:29
in China, all 16 cars will be
01:07:32
lost and only half of the crew will return home,
01:07:36
but the news is that Tokyo was
01:07:39
bombed the bombing will cause an
01:07:42
unprecedented emotional uplift in America, the
01:07:44
participants in the operation will become national
01:07:47
heroes and their memory is still honored to this day. We
01:07:51
would very much like to be able to
01:07:52
say the same about the participants in the first
01:07:55
raids on Berlin and about our attitude towards them
01:08:01
for their participation in the Berlin operation, the title of
01:08:03
hero of the Soviet Union,
01:08:05
captains Tikhonov and Kryuk Majors
01:08:08
Shchelkunov and Malygin Lieutenant Lakhonin
01:08:11
Colonel Preobrazhensky Captains of
01:08:14
Grechishniks Efremov Plotkin and Khokhlov Another
01:08:17
35 pilots and navigators, technicians and
01:08:20
gunners, radio operators were awarded the
01:08:22
Order of the Red Star and the
01:08:24
Red Banner of Battle,
01:08:25
and 13 received the Order of Lenin, they say
01:08:34
that the man is still alive the memory of him is alive,
01:08:37
that is, since they are known, they are remembered about their
01:08:41
exploits,
01:08:42
then they are alive, is the
01:08:50
bolt burning and above the earth will
01:08:56
the stars set in the sky, food, winged
01:09:03
heroes falcons take flight, no world is
01:09:12
ours
01:09:13
and shares are more beautiful than ours, the
01:09:18
sound of the Preobrazhensky engine is our pride
01:09:24
and our Oganezov father and oganezov our father
01:09:37
fairy tales would become
01:09:41
theirs catch it
01:09:43
for the sake of both the sea and the enemy of the edge
01:09:50
[music]
01:09:51
and how the gangs
01:09:56
bolder forward to the
01:10:00
hotel
01:10:01
[music]
01:10:02
Barry
01:10:03
Polish
01:10:05
we have here again the ore to the edge in the flowers of
01:10:13
victory bloomed in the
01:10:17
flowers of victory bloomed for the glory of the
01:10:24
non-native themselves
01:10:27
flies and crumpled like the sky wide, day and
01:10:32
night,
01:10:34
paul 5
01:10:36
[music]
01:10:37
and aventails 1 bank, go
01:10:43
now,
01:10:45
day and night,
01:10:49
flight
01:10:52
and board with 1 beam
01:10:55
[music]

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