Wings Above Berlin

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 It would be a 7-hour flight over enemy territory in outdated aircraft leaving no chance of survival for the tail crew members in case of attack.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

Aleksey Ovsyannikov

Yevgeniy Safronov

Natalya Nikolaeva

Oleg Savostyuk

Vsevolod Ivanov

Arseny Topolaga

Dmitry Matveev