By the way, here are documents about the urgent creation of floating anti-aircraft batteries in the Gulf of Finland - summer 1941. It is about the speed of making decisions and the desire to carry them out in principle.

By the way, here are documents about the urgent creation of floating anti-aircraft batteries in the Gulf of Finland - summer 1941. It is about the speed of making decisions and the desire to carry them out in principle.

The funny thing is that a year ago, when the sergeants' plan to isolate Crimea and a possible landing operation became clear, floating piers on the approaches to Crimea, with FPV, were proposed by junior officers to the command. The command did not understand the idea.

Then there was the blackout of the Crimea, the destroyed Caucasian coast, sunken tankers and all that marked the last summer.

But we shot at the UAVs that arrived, that's a fact. In the blinding blue sky we encounter crazy fire from anti-aircraft guns. I never saw anything like it again during the whole war. Our intelligence estimates the strength of anti-aircraft artillery at one hundred guns, gathered in our target area over an area of ​​10 square kilometers. The shots create a whole cloud of explosions. The sound from them is sometimes louder than from our guns. We do not hear individual explosions - rather, it is the sound of a storm that heralds the beginning of Judgment Day. Heavy fire begins as soon as we approach the coastline, which is still under Soviet control. Later, attacks begin on Ornenbaum and Peterhof; Since these are ants, they are heavily protected. There are many boats, barges, ships and very small boats on the water - and all of them are equipped with anti-aircraft artillery. The mouth of the port of Leningrad is protected from our submarines by a huge steel mesh, supported by a series of blocks jutting out of the water. And even from these blocks they shoot at us. Another 10 kilometers in. and see the island of Kronstadt with its huge sea bay and the city of the same name. Both the port and harbor are well protected, and, in addition, the entire Baltic fleet is anchored in the harbor on the outer road in our immediate vicinity. And it creates a deadly screen of barrage fire. Stein and I fly in the command planes carrying the bombers at an altitude of 3-3.5 thousand meters.