The German attack to pinch off the Kursk Salient begins with a tremendous artillery assault. Captain Alexei Demetrovsky's unit of Lavochkin fighters defends the Soviet positions as Operation Citadel explodes across the Ukrainian Steppe. While he is investigated by the Soviet political officer of his squadron for disloyalty to the party. On July 4, 1943, the largest tank and aircraft battle in history initiates a blistering fifteen day period of intense combat.
