Soviet Airwomen In Combat In World War Ii
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Soviet Airwomen In Combat In World War Ii
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Author : Kazimiera Janina Cottam
language : en
Publisher: Manhattan, Kan. : Military Affairs/Aerospace Historian
Release Date : 1983
Soviet Airwomen In Combat In World War Ii written by Kazimiera Janina Cottam and has been published by Manhattan, Kan. : Military Affairs/Aerospace Historian this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with History categories.
Wings Women And War
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Author : Reina Pennington
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Wings Women And War written by Reina Pennington and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
The Soviet Union was the first nation to allow women pilots to fly combat missions. During World War II the Red Air Force formed three all-female units -- grouped into separate fighter, dive bomber, and night bomber regiments -- while also recruiting other women to fly with mostly male units. Their amazing story, fully recounted for the first time by Reina Pennington, honors a group of fearless and determined women whose exploits have not yet received the recognition they deserve. Pennington chronicles the creation, organization, and leadership of these regiments, as well as the experiences of the pilots, navigators, bomb loaders, mechanics, and others who made up their ranks, all within the context of the Soviet air war on the Eastern Front. These regiments flew a combined total of more than 30,000 combat sorties, produced at least thirty Heroes of the Soviet Union, and included at least two fighter aces. Among their ranks were women like Marina Raskova ("the Soviet Amelia Earhart"), a renowned aviator who persuaded Stalin in 1941 to establish the all-women regiments; the daredevil "night witches" who flew ramshackle biplanes on nocturnal bombing missions over German frontlines; and fighter aces like Liliia Litviak, whose twelve "kills" are largely unknown in the West. Here, too, is the story of Alexander Gridnev, a fighter pilot twice arrested by the Soviet secret police before he was chosen to command the women's fighter regiment. Going well beyond the handful of uncritical, journalistic, or poorly documented previous accounts, Pennington draws upon personal interviews and the Soviet archives to detail the recruitment, training, and combat lives of these women. Deftly mixinganecdote with analysis, her work should find a wide readership among scholars and buffs interested in the history of aviation, World War II, or the Russian military, as well as anyone concerned with the contentious debates surrounding military and combat service for women.
A Dance With Death
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Author : Anne Noggle
language : en
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Release Date : 1994
A Dance With Death written by Anne Noggle and has been published by Texas A&M University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with History categories.
For their heroism and success against the enemy, two of the women's regiments were honored by designation as "Guard" regiments. At least thirty women were decorated with the gold star of Hero of the Soviet Union, their nation's highest award.
A Dance With Death
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Author : Anne Noggle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
A Dance With Death written by Anne Noggle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with categories.
Soviet Airwomen Of The Great Patriotic War A Pictorial History
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Author : G. Piero Milanetti
language : en
Publisher: Crecy Publishing Limited
Release Date : 2013
Soviet Airwomen Of The Great Patriotic War A Pictorial History written by G. Piero Milanetti and has been published by Crecy Publishing Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with History categories.
Flying For Her Country
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Author : Amy Goodpaster Strebe
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2007-08-30
Flying For Her Country written by Amy Goodpaster Strebe and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-30 with History categories.
During the Second World War, women pilots were given the opportunity to fly military aircraft for the first time. In the United States, famed aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran formed the Women Airforce Service Pilots program, where over one thousand women flyers ferried aircraft from factories to airbases throughout the United States and Canada from 1942 to 1944. The WASP operated from 110 facilities and flew more than 60 million miles in 78 different types of aircraft, from the smallest trainers to the fastest fighters and the largest bombers. The WASP performed every duty inside the cockpit as their male counterparts, except combat, and 38 women pilots gave their lives in the service of their country. Notwithstanding their outward appearance as official members of the U.S. Army Air Forces, the WASP were considered civil servants during the war. Despite a highly publicized attempt to militarize in 1944, the women pilots would not be granted veteran status until 1977. In the Soviet Union, Marina Raskova, Russia's Amelia Earhart, famous for her historic Far East flight in 1938, formed the USSR's first all-female aviation regiments that flew combat missions along the Eastern Front. A little over one thousand women flew a combined total of more than 30 thousand combat sorties, producing at least 30 Heroes of the Soviet Union. Included in their ranks were at least two fighter aces. More than 50 women pilots were killed in action. Sharing both patriotism and a mutual love of aviation, these pioneering women flyers faced similar obstacles while challenging assumptions of male supremacy in wartime culture. Despite experiencing discrimination from male aircrews during the war, these intrepid airwomen ultimately earned their respect. The pilots' exploits and their courageous story, told so convincingly here, continue to inspire future generations of women in aviation.
Women In Air War
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Author : Kazimiera Janina Cottam
language : en
Publisher: Nepean, Ont. : New Military Pub.
Release Date : 1997
Women In Air War written by Kazimiera Janina Cottam and has been published by Nepean, Ont. : New Military Pub. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
Personal stories of women in three air regiments on the Eastern Front during World War II
A Thousand Sisters
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Author : Elizabeth Wein
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2019-01-22
A Thousand Sisters written by Elizabeth Wein and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-22 with Young Adult Nonfiction categories.
Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist! The gripping true story of the only women to fly in combat in World War II—from Elizabeth Wein, award-winning author of Code Name Verity In the early years of World War II, Josef Stalin issued an order that made the Soviet Union the first country in the world to allow female pilots to fly in combat. Led by Marina Raskova, these three regiments, including the 588th Night Bomber Regiment—nicknamed the “night witches”—faced intense pressure and obstacles both in the sky and on the ground. Some of these young women perished in flames. Many of them were in their teens when they went to war. This is the story of Raskova’s three regiments, women who enlisted and were deployed on the front lines of battle as navigators, pilots, and mechanics. It is the story of a thousand young women who wanted to take flight to defend their country, and the woman who brought them together in the sky. Packed with black-and-white photographs, fascinating sidebars, and thoroughly researched details, A Thousand Sisters is the inspiring true story of a group of women who set out to change the world, and the sisterhood they formed even amid the destruction of war.
Night Witches The Soviet Female Pilots Who Terrified The German Army
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Author : History Titans
language : en
Publisher: Creek Ridge Publishing
Release Date : 2021-08-20
Night Witches The Soviet Female Pilots Who Terrified The German Army written by History Titans and has been published by Creek Ridge Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-20 with History categories.
The Night Witches were World War II's female volunteers who made one of the first all-female Night Bomber Regiments of the air forces in the Soviet Union. They were war heroines who participated in combat even though they didn’t have any machine guns, radios, radars or parachutes. Yet, they used all of the advantages that a compass, map, pencils, and flashlight could possibly provide and helped to win the war
Women In War And Resistance
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Author : Kazimiera J. Cottam
language : en
Publisher: Focus
Release Date : 2006-02-15
Women In War And Resistance written by Kazimiera J. Cottam and has been published by Focus this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-02-15 with History categories.
This book is a collection of one hundred brief biographies of WWII Soviet female air force, infantry and navy personnel, as well as women partisans and leaders of urban resistance. About one million women served in the Soviet Armed Forces during WWII, yet their significant contribution to victory in that war has, so far, received insufficient attention. Publications in English have been limited to Soviet airwomen and are based on recent interviews with a handful of survivors. Unfortunately, most of these publications contain errors of fact and in some cases trivialize and sensationalize the subject. This collection includes one hundred brief biographies of WWII Soviet female air force, infantry and navy personnel, as well as women partisans and leaders of urban resistance, recipients of the Gold Star of Hero of the Soviet Union (HSU) and the Order of Glory I Class. As indicated in this collection, in the ground forces women distinguished themselves as medical personnel, political officers, tank crew members, machine gunners and snipers. Among decorated women snipers whose biographies appear in the book was Lyudmila Pavlichenko. Invited by Eleanor Roosevelt to tour the United States, she was the first Soviet citizen to be received at the White House and visited Canada, too; a Winchester rifle with an optical sight, now on display at the Central Museum of the Armed Forces in Moscow, was presented to her in Toronto. Also included in the book were biographies of four participants in the Russian Civil War (1918-1921), including the incomparable Rozaliya Zemlyachka, deputy Prime Minister during WWII, and Raisa Azarkh, senior medical officer, who met Dr. Normal Bethune, a famous Canadian (who died tragically in China in 1939) while they both served in Spain, during the Spanish Civil War.