Falcon girls

[nightrider_saulat]

well what else one can say these chicks are really hot......

 

[BlackenTheSky]

This also tells girls arent behind,they have proved it,not only by flying Aircrafts but also many more things

 

[MastanKhan]

well what else one can say these chicks are really hot......

Hi,

Don't forget when they come flying in iraq and afg.

 

[MZUBAIR]

 

[Naradmuni]

I think its a fancy publicity parade. Women are not capable of flying fighter jets in war time. Besides its a highly expensive and sophisticated millitary hardware to be given to girls. I remember a documentary on Nat Geo about US AF. "Being one of the best, is just not enough. You need to be the best to fly that expensive machine which is more than the GDP of a small country", it said.

 

[Gin ka Pakistan]

I think its a fancy publicity parade. Women are not capable of flying fighter jets in war time. Besides its a highly expensive and sophisticated millitary hardware to be given to girls. I remember a documentary on Nat Geo about US AF. "Being one of the best, is just not enough. You need to be the best to fly that expensive machine which is more than the GDP of a small country", it said.

They can fly as interceptors in their own home land .

 

[r0ck]

Apart from that I doubt girls to be in the best league when it comes to handling military hardware. Although could be very good but not 'the' very best.

 

[DaRk WaVe]

I think its a fancy publicity parade. Women are not capable of flying fighter jets in war time. Besides its a highly expensive and sophisticated millitary hardware to be given to girls. I remember a documentary on Nat Geo about US AF. "Being one of the best, is just not enough. You need to be the best to fly that expensive machine which is more than the GDP of a small country", it said.

yeah women are biggest dumb heads on the planet

Night Witches​

One cold spring day in 1943, two junior lieutenants, Tamara Pamyatnykh and Raisa Surnachevskaya, were on a routine patrol over a Soviet railway junction. Suddenly they were confronted by an armada of 42 German bombers - they reacted immediately.

Diving with the sun behind them, the women opened fire on the centre of the Junkers formation. Each pilot shot down two enemy planes. Tamara ran out of ammunition and was going to ram another bomber with her airplane, when her wing was shot off. She bailed out and landed in a field.

Men and women civilians rushed over to help. "They undid the parachute straps and offered me a glass of vodka, which I refused", she recalls. "Nobody couldn't understand why the brave lad who had taken on a Nazi squadron wouldn't drink vodka!"


Then Tamara took off her helmet and the astonished crowd saw the dashing young aviator was a woman.

Tamara is among the surviving veterans Lucy Ash has tracked down in Moscow and southern Russia. The Soviet Union was the first nation to allow women to fly combat missions. Women pilots in other countries flew military aircraft in support roles and some were fired on by enemies. But only Soviet women pilots could fire back; only Soviet women dropped bombs and fought in air battles.

Celebrity influence

Why? Partly because a young woman called Marina Raskova had the ear of Joseph Stalin. Raskova was a national celebrity, a Soviet Amelia Earhart. Before the war, she and two women co–pilots made a record breaking, non stop flight from Moscow to the Russian Far East. Just days after the Germans attacked the USSR in 1941, Raskova persuaded Stalin to establish three female units grouped into separate fighter, dive bomber and night bomber regiments. She trained her personnel as pilots, navigators, maintenance and ground crews, and deployed them to devastating effect.

Nadezhda Popova, now a great grandmother, was a pilot in the 46th Night Bombers Guards Regiment. "The Germans called us Night Witches because we never let them get any sleep", she says. "They spread a rumour that we had been injected with some unknown chemicals that enabled us to see so clearly in the pitch black.!"

Every May 2nd she joins the surviving members of her regiment oputside the Bolshoi theatre in Moscow to reminisce about their daring raids in flimsy bi-planes without radios or even any parachutes.

Initially, at least, the women struggled to gain the respect of their male comrades. One general at the front complained bitterly about being sent a "a bunch of girlies" with such high pitched voices, that he felt he was in a kindergarten. But the women soon proved him wrong and showed their valour even if they did like to decorate their planes with flowers and use their navigation pencils to colour their lips and eyebrows.

On a more sombre note, the number one fear expressed by nearly all female aircrew was what might occur if they were ever captured alive by the Germans. Galina Beltsova, a navigator with the Dive Bombers regiment says: "All of us were provided with one extra bullet and if I could see I was being circled by the enemy of course I could take out my pistol and shoot myself – as a last resort."

Lucy talks to these formidable women veterans who played such a crucial role in the skies over Stalingrad and elsewhere on the Eastern Front. She discovers that they have not only motivated a new generation of female pilots but that their bravery has also inspired tributes from American airwomen, comic book artists and even a Dutch heavy metal band.

Full documentary is here : BBC World Service - Documentaries - Night Witches

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Fighter aces Lilya Litvyak, 12 German kills (left) and Katya Budanova, 11 German kills (center). They both died in combat. On the right is fellow pilot Mariya Kuznetsova.​

Thousands of Russian women and girls courageously fought for their Rodina (Motherland), serving with the Voyenno-Vozdushniye Sily (Air Forces, in Russian). In 1942, three air regiments were formed from female volunteers:
The 586th Women's Fighter Regiment (initially equipped with Yakovlyev YaK-1s and later YaK-7Bs)
The 587th Women's Day Bomber Regiment (flying Petlyakov Pe-2 2-engined bombers)
The 588th Women's Night Bomber Regiment, the famous "Night Witches" (flying Polikarpov Po-2 biplanes)
Many other women also served integrated with men with other aviation units. For example, in 1944, 1,749 girls served with Zabaikalsky Front, 3,000 women and girls served with the Far East 10th Air Army, 437 women served with the 4th Air Army of the Second Belorussian Front that comprised the crack 46th Guards Women Air Regiment that comprised 237 women-officers, 862 sergeants, 1,125 enlisted women and 2,117 auxiliaries. They also served flying and as gunners in the famous Il-2 and Il-2M3 Shturmovik tank busters, the "Flying Bathtub".

Women-pilots of female air regiments engaged in dogfights, cleared the way for the advancing infantry and supported them in ground support missions. The fighter pilots of the all-women 586th IAP (Russian abbreviation for Fighter Aviation Regiment, same as Fighter Air Regiment) flew a total of 4,419 sorties (per pilot) and participated in more than 125 separate air battles, in which they massed a total of 38 confirmed kills. That is, the sorties when the enemy was actually encountered.

Sexism in the V-VS was high initially, male pilots refusing to fly with women as "wingmen", or fly airplanes that had been repaired or serviced by women mechanics and ground crew. But the demonstrated, and often superior, courage and great skill of these female soldiers proved their better than average competence to fullfil their duty. The USSR highly praised the combat deeds of female pilots: thousands won orders and medals. 29 won titles of Hero of the Soviet Union. 23 of these went to the Night Witches.

Sabiha Gökçen​

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Sabiha Gökçen is the world's first female fighter pilot. Born in Bursa, Turkey in 1913, she was orphaned early in life. Fortune began to smile on her in 1925, when the founder and President of the new Republic of Turkey, Kemal Atatürk, took her under his wing. He gave her the name Gökçen ("related to the sky") and brought her to Ankara for more education. She completed her education at Üsküdar Girls College in Istanbul. In 1935, with war clouds over the horizon in Europe, the Turkish Aeronautical Association opened the country's first civil aviation school. Atatürk participated in the opening ceremony and named the school Türkkusu (Turkish Bird).

He enrolled Gökçen as the first female student. It was a revolutionary move in an Islamic country. Following initial glider training, she attended advanced training in the USSR with seven male Turkish students. All hoped to teach flying. Gökçen was an apt pilot and within a year returned to Turkey bearing her glider instructor's diploma. In 1936, she went on to military flight school in Eskisehir. Gökçen endured more than a year of rigorous basic and advanced training. Successful again, she earned her pilot wings in 1937. Flying extensively in French-built Breguet XIX and American-built Curtiss Hawk biplanes, Gökçen earned a place in history as the world's first combat-ready female pilot.

In 1937, she took part in maneuvers in Turkish Thrace and on the country's Aegean coast, and in combat operations in Eastern Anatolia. In the Dersim Operation, the First Air Regiment moved to Elazig to provide close air support for Turkish ground forces combating a foreign-provoked rebellion. Gökçen and other male pilots flew daily shifts. Her performance was superior, both as a pilot and observer. For this she was awarded the Turkish Aeronautical Association's first "Jeweled Medal." In 1938, she was invited to tour several nations of southeastern Europe. On 16 June, she began a 5-day tour flying a Vultee-V bomber. From Istanbul, she flew to Athens and Thessalonika in Greece, and then to Sofia, Bulgaria.

At her next stop, in Belgrade, the Chief of Yugoslavia's General Staff awarded her the "White Eagle," the country's highest military decoration. Her last stop was Bucharest, Romania. On this tour, she had flown nearly 2000 miles over the rugged mountains of the Balkans. Next, Gökçen was named Chief Instructor at the Türkkusu Flight School, where 3 years before she had earned her glider wings. In the 1950's, Gökçen made two trips to the United States, and in 1990 she was invited to India. She retired from active flying in 1964, having flown a long list of aircraft from France, Great Britain, Germany, the United States, and Turkey. The Fédéderation Aéronautique Internationale awarded Gökçen its Gold Medal in 1991 for outstanding achievements in aviation.

She is a member of many international associations, including the Ninety-Nines, the premier organization of American female aviators since 1925. There are statues of her at Türkkusu and at Headquarters, Turkish Air Force. The Turkish Aeronautical Association published her book, My Life Following in Atatürk's Footsteps, on the 100th anniversary of Atatürk's birth.
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[DaRk WaVe]

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Lilya was born in Moscow in August 18, 1921. Lilya was her nickname, as her actual name was Lidiya. She was regarded by all as a "strikingly beautiful woman", which helped earn her public appreciation and, added to her success as a fighter pilot, served the propaganda ministry well.

She began her service in the all-woman 586th IAP, where she flew mostly defense missions from January to August 1942. In August she was posted to "male" squadrons because of her merits. The first was the 286th Fighter Division (IAD), then to the 437 IAP, which had recently been equipped with the new Lavochkin La-5. With this unit she got her first 2 air victories in September 13, 1943. She was sent as an attachment to the female flight of the 287 IAD, and served briefly in the 9th Guards IAP.

In the end of January, 1943, she was transferred to the 296th along with 2 other skilled women fighter pilots. On February 17, 1943, she was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. Two days later she was promoted to Junior Lieutenant and soon after to Senior Lieutenant.

On each side of her YaK-1's cockpit she painted a white lily, often confused for a rose—hence the nickname. She was so fond of flowers, that she often picked wildflowers and carried them aloft on her missions. According to her mechanic, Inna Pasportnikova, she had a postcard with yellow roses in her instrument panel. The white rose on the fuselage became famous among the Germans, who knew better than to try to dogfight the familiar YaK-1, and usually tried to make good their escape before Litvyak got too close.

Litvyak was injured 3 times during her combat tour. All three injuries occured during the Spring and Summer of 1943, a period of intense combat activity. The first time was on March 15, the same day that she shot down a Junkers Ju-88 bomber, but got hit by their escorting Me-109s (she continued to fly and bagged another Ju-88!). She managed to land at her base, and passed out and she remained in a hospital until May.

When she came back, the 296th IAP had been renamed the 73 Guards IAP for their exploits in battle. She was wounded again in combat in July 16 and 18 (the death-date of her comrade Katya Budanova). Both times she landed in German-ocuppied territory, but got back to base on foot the first time, and was rescued by another fighter pilot who landed after her the second.

She was repeatedly successful in flying missions, although was finally killed in action over Orel, while escorting a unit of Shturmoviks returning from an attack in August 1, 1943. Because of her notoriety amongst the Germans, eight Messerschmitt Me-109's concentrated solely on Lilya's YaK-1, and it took all eight of them to finally shoot down the "White Rose of Stalingrad". Her body and aircraft were not found during the war, but a marble monument, with 12 gold stars—one for each enemy plane that she had shot down—was erected in her memory in Krasy Luch, in the Donetsk region. Litvyak had completed 168 missions, and had 3 shared victories in addition to her personal twelve. She was 22 years old when she died.

Note: Some sources claim that she died in September the 1st, and not August. As with most details from the Great Patriotic War, 46 years of censorship has made it hard to be sure about anything.

Her remains were found at last in 1979, buried under her fallen YaK-1's wing, near the village of Dmitriyevka. Ten years later her body was recovered for an official burial; and in May 5, 1990 she was posthumously conferred the title of Hero of the Soviet Union by then Premier Mikhail Gorbachov.

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Captain Katya Budanova flew with Lilya Litvyak in the 296 IAP, later renamed 73 Gv. IAP (Guards IAP). In the skies over Stalingrad, she once fought with a wingman against 12 enemy aircraft, ALONE against 13, and once with 3 other fighters against 19!

She was killed in combat in July 18, 1943, when 2 Messerschmitt Me-109s attacked her. Budanova dispensed with one, but the second managed to shoot her down and escape the battle with a damaged plane. She had a final score of 11 confirmed kills. The archivist of 586 IAP, Yekaterina Polunina, accounts that "she downed over 20 aircraft".

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Leutenant Natalya Myeklin was a pilot for the Night Witches. She joined the Night Witches in 1942 when she was 19 years old, and flew 840 missions in three years.

She survived the war a very condecorated veteran, with medals including the Order of Lenin and the Soviet highest honor, the Hero of the Soviet Union gold star.

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Lieutenant Anna A. Timofyeyevna Yegorova was a Il-2 Shturmovik pilot throughout the Great Patriotic War, and was decorated for valor three times. One of these decoratitions was the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union. She was the navigator of the 305th Air Regiment, took part in fightings aboard the Il-2 combat aircraft over the Taman Peninsula, Small Land, Blue Line of Hitlerite Defense and Poland.


PS: If this is not enough, i can bring more..

 

[Huda]

thankx emo_girl
gilz can do any thing even in air force

 

[DaRk WaVe]

you can also read book, called Women in Air War, The Eastern Front WW2

 

[Kompromat]

Lyudmila Pavlichenko Sniper Super Star
Hero of the Soviet Union and Legendary Marksman

Apr 28, 2009 Christopher Eger
Lyudmila Pavlichenko became a legend during the Sieges of Odessa & Sevastopol in 1941-42. Her story made her an international celebrity and furthered the war effort.



Lyudmila Pavlichenko spent the first year of World War Two in constant combat as a front line sniper with the 54th Rifles Regiment. Wounded four times she survived the terrible sieges of Odessa and Sebastopol by taking some 309 axis soldiers with her rifle. This made her the highest scoring female sniper ace in any war. She was evacuated from the Crimea by submarine and was one of the few members of her unit who survived the siege.

Decorations and Acclaim

For her efforts in the battle Pavlichenko was very publically given the title of Hero of the Soviet Union from Mikhail Kalinin, President of the USSR Supreme Soviet. Due to the publicity making her an icon that could not be risked in the front lines, she was placed on recruiting and training duties for the rest of the war. In September 1942 she embarked with the Soviet Military Delegation to the United States, Canada and Great Britain. She was the first Soviet citizen to be received at the White House where she had dinner with President Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor who took very well to the Soviet soldier. She visited 43 North American cities and gave hundreds of speeches. In New York she was presented with an engraved Colt 1911 pistol in Madison Square Garden by Union leaders from Colt's factory in Hartford Connecticut. In Toronto Canada she was given a similarly embellished Winchester model 70 Rifle with a Weaver scope. She was immensely popular in the western media and the American Folk Singer Woodie Guthrie wrote the song "Miss Pavilichenko" about Pavlichenko. She was given space in the 1943 comic “War Heroes” which embellished her figure but not her deeds.

Return to the Soviet Union

She was awarded the Order of Lenin with "Gold Star" (? 1218) by decree of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, October 1943. She spent the rest of the war as an instructor and was an example to the nearly 2000 female soviet snipers at the front. She was attached to the Central Women’s Sniper Training School near Moscow, created by the Chief Directorate for Universal Military Training of the Commissariat of Defense. The school produced some 1885 female snipers. Many photos of her in circulation are from this period where she was a trainer. Pavlichenko had used a Mosin Nagant bolt action rifle during her front line service but in pictures taken while as an instructor she is shown with a purpose-made snipers cloak and SVT-40 rifle. She was discharged with the rank of major in 1945.

Post War

After the war she moved to Moscow and continued her education. She became a historian, publishing several articles and at least one book. From 1945-53 she was a historian to the General Staff of the Navy. She was later very active in the Soviet Committee of Veterans of War. In 1957 while on a trip to Moscow, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt demanded to meet her old friend from the War. She was eventually taken to Comrade Pavlichenko’s two room apartment and the joyful but awkward reunion was recorded in Mrs. Roosevelt’s diary. She died Oct. 27, 1974 and was buried in Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery (Section 119) with full military honors. Pictures of the sniper appeared on numerous Warsaw Block era postage stamps, posters and post cards. In 1976 the 334-foot ton Soviet Ministries of Fisheries vessel Pavlichenko was named in her honor.

IMO girls are as capable as men , but when both put together can bring success , In all " Ghazwaz" women played a role that no one else could and every one accepted it -- Respect the women ---

 

[ptldM3]

These gals can be my wingwomen anyday

 

[DaRk WaVe]

Lyudmila Pavlichenko​

 

[Windjammer]

Don't forget to look a little closer to home. !!!


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