WWII Red Army Soviet Female Pilots Women "Night Witches" Reprint NEW Photo

Description

WW2 World War Two
46th Guards Night Bomber Aviation Taman Red Banner and Suvorov Regiment (46th Guards Nbap, until February 8, 1943 - 588th Night Light Bomber Aviation Regiment), also known as “Night Witches” - a female aviation regiment as part of the USSR Air Force during World War II.
During the fighting, the pilots of the air regiment made 23,672 sorties. Of them:
Battle for the Caucasus - 2920 sorties;
the liberation of the Kuban, Taman, Novorossiysk - 4623 flights;
the liberation of the Crimea - 6140 sorties;
the liberation of Belarus - 400 sorties;
the liberation of Poland - 5421 departure;
Battle in Germany - 2000 sorties.
The breaks between flights were 5-8 minutes, sometimes during the night the crew made 6-8 flights in the summer and 10-12 in the winter.
In total, the aircraft were in the air for 28,676 hours (1,191 full days).
More than 3 thousand tons of bombs were dropped by pilots.
This is a nice reproduction of an original WW2  photograph
New print on high quality Fujifilm Photo Paper (
Fujicolor Crystal Archive Paper Supreme - Matte paper
)
produced in a Professional Fujifilm Photographic
Laboratory
Size: 103 X 153 mm (about
4"x6")
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