leonid yakubovich, we are talking about the pilots of the famous 588, later the forty-sixth guards aviation regiment, so, when they started working, they had 20 planes in the regiment, two of these, they finished work, there were already 45, they worked non-stop all this time and accomplished in this entire combat history, about 20, 20, now i don't remember, 600 or 700,000 combat sorties, dropped 300 tons of bombs and 26 ampoules of fuel, with flammable liquid, well , i'll tell you that this is simply a phenomenal result, i can list 17 crossings there, that is, nine railway trains, two or two railway stations, about 50 warehouses, fuel tanks, a barge, they hit a pile, in general, according to various estimates, as i already said, the plane could have been shot down. naturally from hand weapons, well , it was flying from a low altitude, however, only one thing saved it, it was possible to hit either pilot, or in the engine, everything else was sewn through and through, and he flew back all in holes, in fact, of course, they were called night witches, this name was given to them by the germans, they g