Yevgenia Maximovna Rudneva

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First Lieutenant Yevgenia Rudneva.

Yevgenia Maximowna Rudnewa ( Russian Евгения Максимовна Руднева ; born December 24, 1920 in Berdyansk ; † April 9, 1944 near Kerch ) was a Soviet bomber pilot .

Life

During the Second World War , she did military service with the night witches , which consisted of women only , who flew combat missions at night with simple Polikarpow Po-2 biplanes .

Yevgenia Rudneva was shot down on her 645th mission.

Posthumously she was given the title Hero of the Soviet Union . The asteroid (1907) Rudneva is named after her.

literature

  • Irina Rakobolskaja : Пока стучит сердце. Дневники и письма Героя Советского Союза Евгении Рудневой. Moscow 1958.

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