terça-feira, 6 de setembro de 2011

Natalya Fyodorovna Meklin - Womens Fighters Pilots at WW2 - Union Soviet






Natalya Fyodorovna Meklin née Kravtsova was a much decorated World War II 
combat pilot in one of the three women-only Soviet air regiments. They were 
nicknamed the 'Night Witches' by their German opponents.

She was born on September 8, 1922, in LubnyUkraine. In 1940 she joined the 
glider school at theKiev Young Pioneer Palace. When she was 19, in 1942 she 
joined the Night Witches, piloting aPolikarpov Po-2 light bomber, and by the end of 
the war had flown 980 night missions. In 1953 she graduated from the Military 
Institute of Foreign Languages.
Subsequently she worked as a translator before retiring. She became a member of 
the Union of Soviet Writers. It is rewarded with the Order of Lenin, with three, with 
Orders of the Patriotic War of the 1st and 2nd degrees, of the Red Star, with 
medals. Several schools are named after her inSmolenskPoltavaStavropol' and 
other cities. She was entitled honorable citizen of the city ofGdansk (Poland). She 
died in Moscow on 5 June 2005.

Awards and honors

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