The first day of the war - June 22, 1941, Dmitry Fedorovich met in Brest. The day before, on Saturday, June 21, a Komsomol meeting of the garrison took place. All were unarmed, and the next morning at 4 o'clock in the morning a war with Nazi Germany began. From the memoirs of Dmitry Fedorovich: “The planes flew low, dropping bombs. It was total hell. The dust from the explosions of bombs, the smoke from the fires that had begun, blocked the rising sun. It was so scary that it seemed that it would never rise again. "