This book recreates an extensive panorama of events that took place during the period February-March 1943 on the Leningrad and Volkhov fronts and is dedicated to two little-known operations - Krasnoborskaya and Smerdynskaya. It tells about the "air workers of the war" - pilots, navigators, air gunner-radio operators, who almost daily rose into the formidable front-line sky and often did not return from sortie. The book uses Russian and foreign archival materials, the results of search expeditions held in the Tosno district of the Leningrad region, as well as unique, previously unpublished photographs.