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Night Witches: The Female Fighter Pilots of World War II
Members of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment decorated their planes with flowers ... and dropped 23,000 tons of bombs.
Nadezhda Fedutenko | Надежда Федутенко
Soviet dive bomber squadron commander of World War II Guards Major Nadezhda Nikiforovna Fedutenko en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadezhda_Fedutenko Надежда Никифоровна Федутенко (1915—1978) — участница Великой Отечественной войны, командир авиационной эскадрильи 125-го гвардейского бомбардировочного авиационного полка 4-й гвардейской бомбардировочной авиационной дивизии 1-го гвардейского бомбардировочного авиационного корпуса 3-й воздушной армии 1-го Прибалтийского фронта, гвардии майор. Герой…
[Photo] Celia Hunter in the cockpit of a P-47 fighter, date unknown
[Photo] Celia Hunter in the cockpit of a P-47 fighter, date unknown | World War II Database
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“Chinese woman in militia, armed with a Mauser C96 pistol, 1939”
Female WWII Pilots: The Original Fly Girls
About 1,100 young women flew military aircraft stateside during World War II as part of a program called Women Airforce Service Pilots — WASP for short. These civilian volunteers ferried and tested planes so male pilots could head to combat duty. The groundbreaking program lasted only two years and nearly fell through the cracks of history.
Night Witches of the USSR
Polikarpov+Po-2+Night+Witches+Models | Pilots of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment, aka the "Night Witches ...
Jerry Hardman (mom) in flying leathers. Likely 1944, New Castle Air Field, Wilmington, Delaware.