good reading about female pilots

[Dutch2]

Would like to know some good reading [English, German or Dutch] about the female pilots in the WW2 Eastern front .  Any recommendations???  

Edited May 18, 2013 by Dutch2

[Uufflakke]

Misschien heb je hier iets aan...

 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Night-Witches-Untold-Soviet-Combat/dp/0897332881/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1368893838&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=Night+Witches%3A+The+Amazing+Story+of+Russia%27s+Women+Pilots+in+WWII

 

Also available at amazon.de by the way.

 

 

 

 

Or how about this book 'The White Rose of Stalingrad'.

 

http://books.google.nl/books?id=nYdf9n-Z6vsC&pg=PT248&dq=Night+Witches:+The+Amazing+Story+of+Russia%27s+Women+Pilots+in+WWII&hl=nl&sa=X&ei=B6mXUbP9McLDhAeJvYHwBg&ved=0CEYQ6AEwAg

 

It is still available at Bol.com as a hard copy and also as a download for ??????

Edited May 18, 2013 by Uufflakke

[Dutch2]

Bedankt / Thanks this was based on http://forum.il2sturmovik.net/topic/291-female-pilots-vvs/  but would like to know from readers experience and it has to do with the BoS scenery , the white rose of stalingrad seems to have a bad reference btw.  

Edited May 18, 2013 by Dutch2

[RedToo]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Over-Fields-Fire-Sturmovik-Memories/dp/1906033277/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1369086721&sr=8-1&keywords=Over+Fields+of+Fire

 

RedToo.

[Chuck_Owl]

Red Sky Black Death: A Soviet Woman Pilot's Memoir of the Eastern Front 

 

http://www.amazon.com/Red-Sky-Black-Death-Eastern/dp/0893573558/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1369806345&sr=8-2&keywords=soviet+pilot

[Sokol1]

Interesting, the Over Fields of Fire: Flying the Sturmovik in Action on the Eastern Front 1942-45 and Red Sky Black Death: A Soviet Woman Pilot's Memoir of the Eastern Front it's about the same pilot.

 

Extracted - from the first, a "fisherman story":

 

 

 

"Our Goldy (that was what we called Rykhlin among ourselves, after his fiery-red hair) got a little carried away, forgot about his altitude in the head of battle, and one of the Hittlerite tanks instantly pulled up the barrel of his cannon and opened fire at the plane! Rykhin's damaged machine, barely pulling out of the attack, turned away towards Galendzhik. But four Messerschmitts pounced upon it like a bolt from blue. The pilot had no choice but to accept the fight with them.

Knowing the power of the forward fire of our Sturmoviks, the German fighters feared to attack from the front. In the current situation the high speed of the Messerschimitt was a nuisance for them and Rykhlin decided to capitalize on it. When two vultures, having put down their undercarriages to reduce the speed, sneaked up to the Sturmovik and began to shoot at it point-blank, Rykhlin abruptly turned his plane around towards the enemy and went on the attack himself. One of the Messerschimitts found itself in the Il's gunsight with his yellow belly exposed. The pilot pressed all the triggers and the yellow-belly began to smoke, tilted on one wing and fell into the sea. The second Hitlerite met the same end. The aerial gunner Vanya Efremenko, already wounded in the arm, shoot up the third one; a fourth Messer exhaled smoke as well. Quitting the dogfight it turned towards his aerodrome.

On his own, badly damaged, our Sturmovik had faced four Facist fighters and got the upper hand! And this miraculous victory was made by a pilot flying only second combat sortie.

 

...Rykhlin and I.S.Efremenko were awarded the ranks of Heroes of the Soviet Union".

 

Sokol1

 

 

 

 

Edited June 22, 2013 by Sokol1

[Rigel]

Nadezhda Popova (one of the first military female pilots in the Soviet Union and was awarded the decorations of Hero of the Soviet Union, also known after joined a night bombing regiment, called night witches, and became commander of the 2nd Women's Regiment) was died on July 8, 2013 at the age of 91 and buried in Novodevichy Cemetery(burial place of many famous and the great Russian people) with her husband Colonel General in the Soviet Air Force Semyon Kharlamov.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadezhda_Popova

Edited July 11, 2013 by Rigel

[707shap_Srbin]

There were 3 female regiments:

 

586 iap PVO - fighter regiment, flew mainly YaK-1

587 bap (125 gbap) - dive bomber regiment, flew Pe-2.

588 nbap (46 guards nbap) - famous "Night witches", flew Po-2. Best sourse is this.

[Mastermariner]

Its a little bit "american view" but still interesting

Edited July 15, 2013 by Mastermariner

[MiloMorai]

Popova (standing) with other Soviet pilots

 

Edited July 17, 2013 by MiloMorai

[ASOT-MladshiyLlama]

 

Interesting, the Over Fields of Fire: Flying the Sturmovik in Action on the Eastern Front 1942-45 and Red Sky Black Death: A Soviet Woman Pilot's Memoir of the Eastern Front it's about the same pilot.

 

Extracted - from the first, a "fisherman story":

Quote

 

"Our Goldy (that was what we called Rykhlin among ourselves, after his fiery-red hair) got a little carried away, forgot about his altitude in the head of battle, and one of the Hittlerite tanks instantly pulled up the barrel of his cannon and opened fire at the plane! Rykhin's damaged machine, barely pulling out of the attack, turned away towards Galendzhik.

 

 

Sokol1

Is this the same incident that was mentioned in Otto Carius' autobiography, "Tigers in the Mud"? (http://www.amazon.com/Tigers-Mud-Commander-Stackpole-Military/dp/0811729117)

To quote from the book, “Kramer , upset by the unrelenting nuisance of these guys, elevated his cannon along the approach route.  I talked him in.  He took a chance and pulled the trigger.  On the second attempt, he hit one of the ‘bees’ on its wing.  The Russian crashed behind us.”

Would really be interesting to find out!

Edited May 12, 2016 by MladshiyLlama

[216th_Lucas_From_Hell]

Not the case. Rykhlin made it back while Carius' target crashed. There was a long discussion a while back about tanks shooting at aircraft, it was somewhat of a common nuisance om both sides.

[NN_Elanion]

This is not a film but it may interest you .
Subtitles in english.

"Night Witches" by Gunilla Bresky:

" Interview with Hero of the Soviet Union Rufina Gasheva, Hero of the Soviet Union Nadezhda Popova, Hero of the Russian Federation Aleksandra Akimova, Irina Rakobolskaya, Irina Dryagina, Olga Yakovleva, Klavdiya Ryzhkova (Deryabina), Raisa Mazdrina. ".