Twenty-two-year-old
First Lieutenant Chuck Hewitt, of the U.S. Army Air Corps, is
in big trouble. While attempting to deliver a lend-lease
B-25 medium bomber to Stalingrad, in 1942, most of his crew
is killed, he's badly shot up, and becomes hopelessly lost.
Eventually hes intercepted by a mysterious Russian fighter
and led to a secret airbase where he crash-lands. Before
passing out, Chuck sees the Russian pilot exit this fighter
discovering the pilot to be a beautiful woman.
Two days later, Chuck regains consciousness in an underground
bunker where he is held prisoner. As the days pass he
gradually discovers there is something terribly wrong with this
airbase there are no men, only women.
For Chuck Hewitt has stumbled onto one of Stalins best kept
secrets. He is the guest of a Soviet fighter squadron
attached to the 586th Fighter Air Regiment, an all-female regiment,
which daily takes on the best pilots Hitlers Luftwaffe
has to offer snaking across the battle-torn skies of Stalingrad
in a macabre aerial-dance of death. These Soviet
women fighter pilots are known as the Free Hunters.
In time, Chuck is accepted by the all-female fighter squadron
and is taught a lesson in courage and valor that will change
the direction of his life. He also falls in love with
one of the squadrons top aces, the woman who led him to this
airbase saving his life and who patiently teaches
him the art of air combat and survival. |
