List of Illustrations

1. Marina Raskova.

2. Marina Raskova, Polina Osipenko and Valentina Grizodubova, 1938.

3. Lilya, pre-war.

4. Young Lilya.

5. Galya Dokutovich and Polina Gelman before the war.

6. Another picture taken before the German invasion.

7. Katya Budanova and male trainees, pre-war.

8. Klava Nechaeva training a male cadet; pre-war photo.

9. Zhenya Prokhorova and her team at an air parade in Tushino.

10. Anna Yegorova with other Komsomol members, construction of the Metro.

11. Women and children in the underground hall of Mayakovskaya Metro station during an air raid in Moscow, 1941.

12. Volunteers enlist in the national militia in Moscow, 1941.

13. Masha Kuznetsova.

14. Raisa Surnachevskaya, Katya Budanova and Olga Shakhova.

15. Anna Yegorova being briefed next to her U-2, 1941.

16. Unidentified, Katya Budanova and Zhenya Prokhorova, Engels.

17. Anya Skorobogatova. “Forget-me-not” radio operator.

18. Pilot Klava Nechaeva.

19. Komsomol organizer Lena Lukina.

20. Zhenya Rudneva.

21. Masha Dolina.

22. Sergey Yesenin.

23. Konstantin Simonov.

24. Corporal Alexandra Vinogradova.

25. Olga Golubeva.

26. Yevdokia Rachkevich and Yevdokia Bershanskaya.

27. Lilya with mechanic Semyon Nizin, Stalingrad.

28. Mechanics on a Yak, Stalingrad.

29. Female anti-aircraft soldiers.

30. Lilya Litvyak, Katya Budanova and Masha Kuznetsova. Stalingrad, autumn 1942.

31. Mechanic Nina Shebalina.

32. Lilya and mechanics standing beside her Yak, Stalingrad.

33. Stalingrad.

34. Vasily Stalin.

35. Lera Khomyakova with Tamara Kazarinova and a female commissar.

36. Galya Dzhunkovskaya, Masha Dolina and Vanya Solyonov by their Pe-2.

37. Vladimir Mikoyan with pilots from his regiment.

38. Klava Blinova with male pilots from her regiment.

39. Pilot Klava Blinova.

40. Galya Dokutovich in Yessentuki.

41. Lilya Litvyak by her plane.

42. Anna Yegorova, Il-2 pilot, summer 1943.

43. Boris Yeremin in his Yak, 1943.

44. Pilot Alexey Salomatin.

45. Pilot Antonina (Tonya) Lebedev.

46. Lilya with pilots of her regiment.

47. Sasha Martynov, Nikolai Baranov, Lilya and Salomatin.

48. Salomatin’s funeral.

49. Katya Budanova in military uniform in Moscow, April–June 1943.

50. A refugee family finally return to their home.

51. Mechanic Nikolai Menkov, 1944.

52. Regiment commander Ivan Golyshev.

53. Veterans of the 46 Guards Night Bomber Regiment on Victory Day.

54. Valentina Vashchenko with her students, Krasny Luch, Ukraine.