The Forbidden Heroes

Hawker Hurricane was his plane. Karubin was chasing a German fighter at tree top level, when his Hurricane had run out of ammunition. Karubin closed the distance and climbed right above the German fighter, who crashed into the ground when he had seen, underside of Hurricane within arm’s reach of his cockpit. The German pilot tried to avoid the collision, reducing altitude without precision. In 1944 on D-Day, he and all members of his Squadron 303 flew many times over the landing beaches. Division 303 used its Spitfires on various ground attack missions on V-1 and V-2 launch sites, located in the Netherlands. Pilots from Squadron 303 claimed 126 kills in six weeks, had 7 their pilots killed and 5 badly wounded, but were not invited to London Victory Parade in 1946 and Western betrayal of their country culminated upon taking half of their homeland - braking morale of the broken winners.