A. Answer these questions.
1. What were the disadvantages of the type of aircraft used by the female fighter pilots?
What was the advantage?
2. Nobody could understand why the brave lad who had taken on a Nazi squadron wouldn't drink
vodka. What mistake were the people in this situation making? What does this say about female
fighter pilots-were they a common or an uncommon figure at that time?
Answers
Members of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment decorated their planes with flowers ... and dropped 23,000 tons of bombs.
Members of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment decorated their planes with flowers ... and dropped 23,000 tons of bombs.MEGAN GARBER
Members of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment decorated their planes with flowers ... and dropped 23,000 tons of bombs.MEGAN GARBERIt was the spring of 1943, at the height of World War II. Two pilots, members of the Soviet Air Force, were flying their planes—Polikarpov Po-2 biplanes, built mainly of plywood and canvas—over a Soviet railway junction. Their passage was on its way to being a routine patrol ... until the pilots found themselves confronted by a collection of German bombers. Forty-two of them.