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Fighter Tactics, 44k   These women's commitment to their reasons for fighting soon won the respect of their adversaries. The Germans soon started calling their female opponents of the 588 NBAP as the "Night Witches." The 588 NBAP received the covetted designation of meritorious service, and appropriate losses, of being elevated to the new title of 46 GvNBAP "Taman" (Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment).
   During the battle for Kursk in the summer of 1943, which would mean the collapse of any hope of a German victory in the East, until the Soviet assault against Berlin in May of 1945, the Soviet's female combat units were engaged in some of the heaviest aerial combat operations in history.
586<i>IAP</i> armament check, 44k   Other women, like Str. Lyt. Anna Timofeyeva-Yegorova GSS (Geroina Sovietskogo Soyuza , Heroine of the Soviet Union) served in the Kuban and Crimea area flying their "flying tank," the Il-2. Anna Timofeyeva-Yegorova, deputy commander and regimental navigator of the 805 ShAP ( Shturmovick, Ground Attack Aviation Regiment), was the only female in the unit she served with. This woman faced some of the fiercest aerial combat in recorded history, against the Luftwaffe's JG-54.


   Some of the women of these female units that won distinction and held command positions were as follows:
   

Commanders- 586 IAP (Fighter Aviation Regiment).
Lilya Litvak - Flight Commander
Raisa Belyayeva - Squadron Commander
Tamara Pamyatnykh - Squadron Commander
Raya Surnachevskaya - Squadron Commander
Marinya Kuznetsova - Squadron Commander
Commanders - 587 BAP (Bomber Aviation Regiment).
Kladiya Fomicheva HSU - Squadron Commander
Marina Raskova HSU - Regimental Commander
Nadezhda Fedutenko HSU - Squadron Commander
Commanders - 588 NBAP (Night Bomber Aviation Regiment).
Yevodokiya Bershanskaya - Regimental Commander
Yevgeniya Zhigulenko - Flight Commander
Tat'yana Makorova HSU - Flight Commander
Yevdokiya Nosal' HSU - Flight Commander
Nina Ul'yanenko HSU - Flight Navigator

   Further reading on this very interesting but sadly overlooked subject on women's military and stress studies can be found in the following books:

   Soviet Airwomen in Combat In World War II by K. J. Cottam, Sunflower University Press, 1531 Yuma, Box 1009, Manhattan, KS, 66502-4228, 1-913-539-1888,
e-mail@ (Clicking here opens another window).
   A Dance With Death by Anne Nogle, Texas A&M University Press, College Station, TX, 77843-4354.
   Red Beauty, 2 by Harold E. Stockton Jr., Snow Leopard Productions, P.O. Box 531, Round Rock, TX, 78681, 1-512-255-0016, e-mail. Dealers.

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