"Night Witches"! Female Combat Pilots on Eastern Front! Part-1! (English subtitles)

[strizhi]

My mother's name is Sveta or Svetlana Timofeevna and if Yegorova by any chance would've had any daughters or a family after her I would like to know. I'm saving to go back and visit. I'm so glad this was uploaded and I miss my home country - next step which should be easy is to relearn Russian.

[strizhi]

I was born in 1986 in St Petersburg Russia and was adopted to the US in 1996. My Russian name is Sasha Timofeev Alexander Annatolievich. For some reason I sincerely believe I'm related to Lt. Anna A. Yegorova Timofeevna. I look just like her in her youthful age when she flew the Il-2 Shturmovik. I may have been wrong about all this time but can anyone please help me get some sort of family tree leniage?? Preferably someone in Russia who would be able to get a hold of this information.

[Wolfen443]

Brave women indeed, RIP those who died in battle.

[JASHVEER22]

Great info Bitnikgr thanks again for the good work

[BitnikGr]

Combat losses - 32 women.

Despite they were falling behind enemy lines, none of them is MIA. Graves of all 32 were found after war. None of "Night Witches" was captured as a POW.

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wiki/46-й_гвардейский_ночной_б­омбардировочный_авиационный_по­лк

At this page you can find a list with 26 female combat pilots of 46th Guards Battalion awarded with medal of "Hero of Soviet Union", and numbers of their flights. Most of them are from 600 to 900!

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[BitnikGr]

@BitnikGr - Among those 26: 12 are Russians, 7 are Ukrainians 2 are Tatars 2 are Jewish 1 is Belorussian 1 is Kazakh 1 is Kalmykian - On that Wiki page you can click on their names and see their faces.

[BitnikGr]

23672 Combat missions. 28676 flight hours (1191 full days - almost 3 years and 4 months).

Battle of Caucasus - 2920 flights

Liberation of Kuban, Taman Peninsula, Novorossiysk - 4623 flights

Liberation of Crimea - 6140 flights

Liberation of Belorussia - 400 flitghts

Liberation of Poland - 5421flights

Battle of Germany - 2000 flights

[BitnikGr]

May 23, 1942 - 588th Battalion arrived at front line to river Sal. First combat mission at 12 of June 1942.

Till August 42 - battles at river Don and suburbs of Stavropol

Till December of 42 - defense of Vladikavkaz

January '43 - assaults on enemy positions for breakthrough of ground forces

Till September '43 - assaults on "Blue Line" for liberation of Taman Peninsula and Novorossiysk

Till '44 - support of paratroopers assault on Kerch Peninsula... Liberation of Sevastopol

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[BitnikGr]

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Till July '44 - Battles in Belorussia. Liberation of Mogilev, Cherven, Minsk, Belostok.

Till '45 - Battles over Poland. Liberation of Augistiv, Warsaw, Ostroleka

January '45 - Eastern Prussia

March '45 - Liberation of Gdynia and Gdansk

April '45 to May '45 - Help in breakthrough of enemy defences on river Oder.