Comin' in on a Wing and a Prayer (Bombers) (1942)

Leonid Utesov. Leonid Utesov Jazz Orchestra. Music: Jimmy McHugh. Russian lyrics by S. Bolotin and T. Sikorskaia

Description: Utesov turned his love of American jazz into a gesture of wartime friendship by adapting Jimmy McHugh's hit to Russian lyrics. Original lyrics by Harold Adamson.

1943

900 Days Battle of Kursk The Cult of Leadership Deportation of Minorities End of the Comintern Epaulettes Back on Uniforms Holocaust Katyn Forest Massacre Love and Romance in War The Nazi Tide Stops New National Anthem Orthodox Patriarch Appointed Partisans in the Forest The Strange Alliance The Vlasov Movement Wartime Evacuation Women in War Films