Stepanovich Wrote:Any idea who this was or what her rank would have been? I'm sure that someone in possession of the two volume HSU book can answer this.
Steve
From Heroines of the SU: " "Night Witch" Lt. Natalya Meklin was Mariya Smirnova's first pilot and the standard bearer of the regiment. She flew 982 night missions and was described by Col/Gen K.A. Vershinin as "a confident, fearless pilot." She became a writer after the war and now resides in Moscow. "
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