Название: Over Fields of Fire: Flying the Sturmovik in Action on the Eastern Front 1942-45
Автор: Anna Timofeeva-Egorova
Издательство: Helion and Company
ISBN: 1906033277
Год: 2010
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 208
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 4,7 МБ
Язык: Английский
During the 1930s the Soviet Union launched a major effort to create a modern Air Force. That process required training tens of thousands of pilots. Among those pilots were larger numbers of young women, training shoulder to shoulder with their male counterparts. A common training program of the day involved studying in 'flying clubs' during leisure hours, first using gliders and then training planes. Following this, the best graduates could enter military schools to become professional combat pilots or flight navigators. The author of this book passed through all of those stages and had become an experienced training pilot when the USSR entered the war.Volunteering for frontline duty, the author flew 130 combat missions piloting the U2 biplane in a liaison squadron. In the initial period of the war, the German Luftwaffe dominated the sky.