Nadezhda Popova
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Nadezhda Vasilyevna Popova was a squadron commander in the 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Regiment during the Second World War who achieved significant domestic publicity after completing 18 bombing s
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Popova with Russian president Medvedev in 2009
Polikarpov Po-2
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The Polikarpov Po-2 is an all-weather multirole Soviet biplane, nicknamed Kukuruznik. The reliable, uncomplicated design of the Po-2 made it an ideal trainer aircraft, as well as doubling as a low-cos
Nadezhda Popova
…Raskova to Engels to join other women being trained to become military pilots. She then joined the 588th Night Bomber Aviation Regiment, which flew the Polikarpov Po-2, a bi-plane used as a crop duster before the war. The regiment flew combat sorties exclusively at night; their planes, which were not equipped with…
1944 Polikarpov Po-2 of The Shuttleworth Collection, United Kingdom
A Po-2 at a museum in Dresden, Germany
Damaged and abandoned Po-2 forced to land in Ukraine, and subsequently captured by German troops, 1941.
A wounded soldier being loaded onto a U-2 for evacuation to a hospital in the rear, 1941