The year is 1941. Nazi Germany has declared war on the USSR and begins launching air assaults on Moscow and St. Petersburg. Stalin immediately orders a retaliatory air campaign under the code name “Wings over Berlin.” The closest entry point to Berlin from the USSR border was an airfield on the Estonian island Saaremaa in the Baltic Sea. It would be a 7-hour flight over enemy territory in outdated aircraft leaving no chance of survival for the tail crew members in case of attack. Despite overwhelming odds, the first units completed the mission and made it back to base safely, unlike many others that followed.
Sergey Puskepalis
Maksim Bityukov
Gela Meskhi
Alexandr Metelkin
Sergey Gilev
Evgeny Antropov
Nikolay Kozak
Vladimir Tyaptushkin
Stepan Belozerov
Andrey Kharenko
Leonela Manturova
Alexey Ovsyannikov
Yevgeniy Safronov
Natalya Nikolaeva
Oleg Savostyuk
Vsevolod Ivanov
Arseny Topolaga
Dmitry Matveev
Sergey Demidov
Georgy Iobadze
Alexandr Kudin
Evgeniya Lyakh
Timur Oragvelidze
Kirill Papin
Yury Pavlov
Ivan Reshetnyak
Maxim Solopov
Vladimir Sarapultsev
Saveliy Kudryashov
Fedor Fedoseev
Yakov Shamshin
Nadezhda Belyakova