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Tatjana Petrovna Makarova (1920-1944)
Vera Belik (1921-1944)
Tatjana Petrovna Makarova a soviet pilot and a commader of the air regiment got in 1939 a pilot-instructor speciality.
During the WWII she made 628 fighting flights. She perished in 1944, during the fighting in Poland.
Vera Belik a World War II navigator joined the Red Army in 1941 and completed 813 bombing missions.
Both pilots died on active duty in Poland in 1944. |
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Helene Boucher (1908-1934)
Maryse Hilsz (1903-1946)
Helene Boucher a French pilot set several women`s world speed records. She was killed in an accident in 1934.
Maryse Hilsz was a French aviatrix. Began flying career with parachute jumping and acrobatics from planes in flight.
Obtained lecense 1930. |
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Happy Birthday to American anthropologist and folklorist Ruth Fulton Benedict (1887-1948). Benedict's anthropology book Patterns of Culture (1934) was widely used as a textbook in anthropology courses in American universities for many years. Here are images of a first day cover and of a stamp honoring Ruth Benedict, designed by American artist Roy Andersen (1930- ), engraved by Kenneth Kipperman (vignette) and Dennis Brown (lettering), and issued by the USA on October 20, 1995 as one of the "Great Americans" series, Scott No. 2938, plus a photograph of Ruth Benedict. - nethryk    |
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Polina Osipenko (1907-1939)
Polina Osipenko was Soviet military pilot and hero of the Soviet Union.
She set five world records for women. |
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I was going through some German FDCs lot and found a few covers which fit into various threads. So I will share them with fellow collectors.
Elisabeth Eleonore Anna Justine "Elly" Heuss-Knapp, 25 January 1881 – 19 July 1952.
Elly was a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP), social reformer, author and wife of German president Theodor Heuss. She was the founder of the Müttergenesungswerk charitable organisation officially called Elly Heuss-Knapp Foundation in her honour.  |
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Baroness Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - September 13, 1830 – March 12, 1916. She was an Austrian writer. Noted for her excellent psychological novels, she is regarded, together with Ferdinand von Saar, as one of the most important German-language writers of the latter portion of the 19th century.
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Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (1915-2006)
.........................................nice cover arrived today from Portugal
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf was a German-born Austrian/British soprano opera singer and recitalist.
She stood out in the most prestigious opera houses in the world.
She had an exceptional tone of voice and an unusual interpretive talent.
She made her debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 1938. |
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Valentina Grizodubova (1910-1993)
 
Valentina Grizodubova was a World War II air commander and pioneer aviator.
During WWII she made more than 200 military flights, including bombing missions against Germany. |
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Evelyn Bobbi Trout (1906-2003)
Evelyn Bobbi Trout was an early American female aviator.
She got pilot licence in 1928 and in 1929 she set the first non-refueling endurance record for women. |
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Ruth Elder (1902-1977)
Ruth Elder was a pilot and actress and was known as the Miss America of Aviation.
In 1927 she want to cross Atlantic from New York to Paris as the first woman.
She faild, but put at the time the longest flight ever made by a woman. |
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Antonina Leontevna Zubkova (1920-1950)
Antonina Leontevna Zubkova was a Soviet pilot and navigastor. Since 1941 was in the Red Army.
During WWII she fought in the West, 3rd Belorussian, 1st and 2nd Baltic fronts. He made 56 sorties.
In 1945 she was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union for her courage and valor displayed in the battles with the enemy. |
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Ruth Rowland Nichols (1901-1960)
 
Ruth Rowland Nichols was an aviation pioneer. She became the first licensed woman seaplane pilot
and was the only woman to hold simultaneously the women`s world speed, altitude, and distance records for heavy landplanes. |
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Happy Birthday to Visitación Padilla (1882-1960), a Honduran educator, journalist, poet, advocate for women's rights, and national heroine. Here is an image of an airmail stamp featuring a portrait of Padilla, printed by lithography, and issued by Honduras on June 15, 1981 as one of four stamps in a set commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Inter-American Women's Commission, Scott No. C695, plus an image of a photograph of Visitación Padilla. - nethryk   |
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Matilde Moisant (1878-1964)
Matilde Moisant was an American pioneer aviator and
the second woman in the United States to get a pilot`s license. |
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