The world's first women combat pilots were members of the Soviet
Army Air Force, flying fighters and bomber aircraft opposite the
Luftwaffe. Thirty women flyers received Hero of the Soviet Union
awards, one of that nation's highest honors.
During three visits to Moscow during and after the collapse of
the Soviet Union, Anne Noggle interviewed more than seventy of
these veteran pilots. Freed by glasnost to speak openly of their
experiences, they told of flying flimsy aircraft and watching many
of their friends -- as well as foes -- fall to earth in flames.
But equally courageous were the women's efforts to show the Red
Army that they were adequate to the great role they sought. The
women had to grapple with deep distrust from male pilots and
officers, against whom they eventually prevailed. War, Stalin-era
politics, and human emotion mix in these gripping, first-person
accounts.
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