The legendary attack aircraft of the times of the Great Patriotic Il-2 can be called the weapon of Victory without exaggeration. In the spring of this year, a search expedition went to the Kerch Strait to raise Soviet aircraft lost during the battles for the Crimea. The main task was to establish the names of the dead pilots. However, it immediately became clear that the sea did not intend to part with attack aircraft, which had lain under water for more than seventy years, without a fight.