Girls and Aircraft - Volume II

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US Army promotional photo features Barbara Jane Erickson (in the cockpit) and Evelyn Sharp (right), both Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFs) pilots, as they pose with a North American P-51 Mustang fighter plane, circa 1943, circa 1943. (Photo by US Army/PhotoQuest/Getty Images)
 
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46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Female Aviation Regiment. "Night Witches".
The Germans called them "Night Witches" because all combat sorties were exclusively nightly, and before diving into enemy positions, the pilots turned off the engines on their Po-2 biplanes and only a quiet rustle of air under the wings remained, similar to the sound of a broomstick.

Written on an airplane "we avenge battle friends", names of the lost woman-pilots Tatyana Makarova, Vera Belik.



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