Airwomen of the Red Star

A homage to the brave and beautiful women who fought the fascists in WWII

  1. Ilyushin Il2m3 Shturmovik

  2. Irina Syebrova

  3. A group of Night Witches from the 588th Night Bomber Regiment returning from a successful raid. In the centre is the 588th's commander, Major...

  4. Anna Yegorova

  5. Dr Galina Pavlovna Brok Beltsova (r) and Galina Korchuganova

  6. Polikarpov PO22 in reconnaisance over Moscow

  7. Yetaterina Ryabova and Nadyezhda Popova

  8. Marina Mikhailovna Raskova, the guiding light of the Female Air Regiments for the Air Force of the Red Army

  9. Yekaterina Budanova

  10. Soviet female fighter pilots (l-r Galina Burdina, Tamara Pamytnykh, Valeriya Khomyakhova, Valentina Lisitsina). In the background is an early Yak-1...

  11. Pilots of the 46th Taman' Guards Bomber Regiment in a photograph taken in 1945. (l-r Rufina Gasheva, Natalya Myeklin, Marina Chechnyeva, Nadyezhda...

  12. Lidiya Litvyak's Yakovlyev YAK-1s

  13. Polikarpov PO-2

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