Beautiful... and dangerous!

[Guest ericthered1975]

During the World War II many women piloted fighter planes or bombers, is transporting them from the factories to the front line or in combat. I share with you an extensive and fantastic collection of photos that show some these brave and beautiful women in action. You can find the images by visiting the link below:

 

Aviação em Floripa: Belas e mortais

 

Best Regards!

 

 

[Old Koreelah]

Eric there are a couple of good docos about these amazing women. The Soviets went further than every other nation, allowing women to fly bombers and fighters in action, with considerable success.

 

 

[spacesailor]

I admire, Cornelia Clark Fort (February 5, 1919 – March 21, 1943) She was a US aviator who became famous for two aviation related events. While conducting a civilian training flight at Pearl Harbor,She met a war plane head-on, so wrenched the controls from her student's grasp and managed to pull the plane up just in time to avoid a mid-air crash. As she looked around she saw the red sun symbol on the wings of the disappearing plane and in the distance, probably not more than a quarter mile away, billowing smoke was rising over Pearl Harbor. she was the first US pilot to encounter the Japanese air fleet during the Attack on Pearl Harbor, She became a ferry pilot,then became the first female pilot in American history to die, while ferrying bombers ,another male ferry pilot crashed ontop of her aircraft .

 

spacesailor

 

 

[old man emu]

Ah! The Russian Night Witches.

 

Night Witches: The Female Fighter Pilots of World War II

 

OME

 

 

[spacesailor]

O M E,

 

night witches

 

Shame the video was removed.

 

spacesailor

 

 

[facthunter]

The remains of them "those left" were still meeting up to a few years ago. They flew crappy Polikarpovs and they threw bombs over the side at night. If they crashed the Germans didn't give them anything nice to celebrate. Nev

 

 

[flying dog]

Not wanting to be picky, but.......

 

Belas e mortais

 

Isn't that Pretty and deadly?

 

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