Twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Lenin Prize laureate, Honored Military Pilot of the USSR, Air Marshal Yevgeny Yakovlevich Savitsky commanded the Third Fighter Air Corps of the RVGK during the war. He made 216 sorties, shot down 22 enemy aircraft in person and 2 in the group. In his book, the author talks about the intense, full of truly heroic achievements and romance of the life of a fighter pilot.