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

摘要

"So you want to fly the Shturmovik? Do you have any idea what a hellish job that is? No woman in history has ever flown ground attack planes. Two cannons, two machine guns, two guided missile batteries, bombs-that's the 'Il's' armament. Trust me, even well-trained pilots have a hard time with the thing." That was the first but by no means the last time Anna Yegorova was told that she wanted to fly aircraft not meant for a woman.