Baptism of Fire of Young Pilots

Stalingrad Front, September 1942. Young pilots Tomchan and Kotlenko receive a combat mission from the regiment commander and fly out on a mission. The regiment commander, Captain Kukushkin, is directing the air combat of the pilots by radio from the airfield. The regiment commissar is watching the air battle. Squadrons of Soviet aircraft at the front airfield. View of a burning German plane shot down by Soviet pilots.

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