Sunday, December 4, 2022

War is a dangerous business

 


Soviet Yakovlev Yak-9 fighter pilot, Lt. Antonina Lebedeva. She was one of the few female fighter pilots to have shot down a Messerschmitt Bf 109 before she was later killed in a dogfight during the Battle of Kursk on July 17, 1943. She remains MIA.

4 comments:

  1. One small correction. Her body was found in 1982.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonina_Lebedeva

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  2. She was a nice looking "nachthexe",

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