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Over Fields Of Fire: Flying The Sturmovik In Action On The Eastern Front 1942 45 (Blue Jacket Bks) QUOTES

Over Fields Of Fire: Flying The Sturmovik In Action On The Eastern Front 1942 45 (Blue Jacket Bks) QUOTES

1 " I was amongst them – the first female pilot who had got admission to the Sturmoviks…Since my childhood I’d been lucky enough to meet good people. Wherever I studied, wherever I worked I would meet loyal friends, kind-hearted tutors. I was trained at the factory school by the old craftsman Goubanov, I was assisted by the engineer Aliev, who was the shift boss, in my transfer to the most important sector of operations – the tunnel. I was trained by the superb instructor Miroevskiy in the aeroclub, the secretary of the Ulyanovsk District Comsomol Committee gave me a hand at a very hard moment of my life, then there was Maria Borek from Leningrad, the Secretary of the Smolensk District Comsomol Committee, the Commissar of the Smolensk aeroclub…Was it really possible to count all those who had warmed my soul with their sympathy and human kindness and helped me to realize my dream! "

― , Over Fields Of Fire: Flying The Sturmovik In Action On The Eastern Front 1942 45 (Blue Jacket Bks)

2 " In spite of everything, all the POWs except for the Russians were receiving food parcels and medication from the International Red Cross. The Soviet Union had withdrawn from that organisation. Stalin said then: “There are no POWs of ours – there are traitors… "

― , Over Fields Of Fire: Flying The Sturmovik In Action On The Eastern Front 1942 45 (Blue Jacket Bks)