



Soviet and French pilots.




French pilots don flight gear.
Pilots in the cockpit.




The Normandie-Niemen squadron's planes take off.
Officers are on the airfield.
The planes taxi out from behind the trees onto the field and begin their takeoff run.




Planes take off.
Radio operator on the ground.
Planes in the sky.
Air combat.
The damaged plane descends.
Members of the command.
The plane crashes.
Soldiers run across the field.
Explosion.




French pilots.
Flags of the USSR and France.
Soviet and French pilots say goodbye.
Soviet pilots walk across the airfield.