"On Febuary 23, 1945 she was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union and the Order of Lenin for her 630 night combat missions with 875
flight hours in combat, dropping 77 tons of bombs on enemy-controlled
territory; destroying a warehouse, two Nazi platoons, five cars, three turrets, and two ferries as well as supplying Soviet land forces with 25 resupply drops of food and ammunition wile flying with the 588th Night Bomber Regiment and later renamed the 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment (nicknamed the "Night Witches"."
Such a witcht ally!
Brian
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