Well...
The action takes place in 1947.
I was assigned to secret flights over enemy lines to test some new material (and I can't reveal the details )
My home base was Shelikhovo, south to the Kamchatka peninsula.
This day, the mission was to make a deep recon with a two ships flight.
I didn't know who was my wingman and his RIO, and I never will...
In fact my own RIO and I didn't really know each other, but the task was simple and we were both ready.
We took-off and soon headed north following our flight plan.
As we were flying over the moutains I decided to take some heigth, just in case.
We crossed the path of enemy fighters but I guess they didn't saw us, and we kept our course as planed.
As we're closing to the target, I started to relax because it was just one visual recon pass to perform and the taxi was running OK.
And I saw "it"...
What came to my mind was "...if only I'd pay attention to the briefing..."
But we were there and it was simple, just one pass under ..."it"
We notice some trucks and some barracks. Strange
As we were closer, we realise the huge size of "what" we had just in front of us.
Ok! Concentrate!
I made one pass just over the ruins of what should have been there before, trying not to look above.
I flew under "it"... I've made it!!!
and did a real tight turn to take the course back home...
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