Parachute on the trees. Soviet saboteurs in Prussia. Ridevsky N.F.

The feat of the fighters of the Jack reconnaissance and sabotage group, which acted from late July to December 1944, in the rear of the East Prussian group of enemy troops in the vicinity of the headquarters of Hitler’s Wolfsan, was forever inscribed in the history of the Great Patriotic War. "). Of the ten members of Jack, only three remained by the end of the operation of the alive. The Germans literally hunted for our scouts, over and over again combing the area with a chain.

One of the survivors in that operation was Napoleon Ridevsky. He described his story in the book “Parachute on the Trees”, and in 1974 the viewer saw the two -part film of the same name, telling about the legendary reconnaissance.