willedoo Posted August 1, 2012 Posted August 1, 2012 Today is the 69th. anniversary of the death of WW2 ace, Lydia Litvyak (Лидия Литвяк) in combat , one of the world's only two female fighter aces. A squadron leader, she lost her life at the age of 21. Whilst attacking a flight of German bombers in her Yak-1, she was set upon by a group of Bf-109's. Her short life & career is quite a story; the wiki page has a fair bit of info on her. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Litvyak [ATTACH=full]1308[/ATTACH] Yak-1 [ATTACH=full]1309[/ATTACH] Cheers, Willie. [ATTACH]18244[/ATTACH]
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