Olga Sanfirova
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Olga Aleksandrovna Sanfirova was a captain and squadron commander in the 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment during World War II. She was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Sov
Olga Sanfirova
Commemorative plaque on the wall of 222 Oktyabrskaya Revolution Street in Kolomna in memory of Olga Sanfirova and other military aircraft pilots — Heroes of the Soviet Union associated with the Kolomna aeroclub (listed on the plate)
Marina Raskova
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Marina Mikhaylovna Raskova was the first woman in the Soviet Union to achieve the diploma of professional air navigator. Raskova went from a young woman with aspirations of becoming an opera singer to
Olga Sanfirova
…military in December 1941 and was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1942. Sanfirova joined the Air Force at the encouragement of Marina Raskova. She trained at the Engels Military School of Aviation, and after graduating the Bataysk Military Aviation School in 1942 she joined the 588th Night…
A damaged and abandoned Po-2 forced to land in Ukrainian SSR and subsequently captured by German troops, 1941. On this type of aircraft, the Night Witches flew more than 24,000 sorties
Russian pilots and ground crew pose in front of a Pe-2 dive bomber at Poltava, June 1944. Marina Raskova died while flying this type of aircraft in a flying accident, near Stalingrad
Raskova's ashes were buried in the necropolis of the Moscow Kremlin Wall, beside Osipenko's
Soviet stamp, 1939