Author of quotes: Alexander Evgenievich Golovanov

Quote Explanation: In his memoirs, Air Chief Marshal A. E. Golovanov, giving examples of the heroism of pilots in those days, modestly keeps silent about the fact that he personally led groups of his 212th Separate Long-Range Bomber Regiment into battle. His crews were killed, but did everything to at least slow down the rapid advance in the Moscow direction of Guderian's tank columns. The aces of the best German fighter squadron of Werner Mölders raged in the sky. This was the very inferno of the catastrophe of the Western Front...