Red Sky, Black Death: A Soviet Woman Pilot's Memoir of the Eastern Front

摘要

Anna Timofeyeva-Yegorova was a senior lieutenant in the Soviet air force during World War II. The following excerpt, from a chapter titled "Shot Down," tells what happened on August 20,1944, asrnYegorova, flying an llyushin 11-2 Shturmovik ground-attack aircraft, targeted German tanks near Warsaw.