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In September, she was assigned to the 437 IAP, a men’s regiment fighting over Stalingrad. Of course when Barbarossa broke out and the massive Wehrmacht was making its way into the interior of the country, she tried to fly for the Soviet Air Force. How old was Lydia Koidula at death? A pair of them dived on her and when she did see them she turned to meet them. The latest information pertaining to the alleged death in WWII of Lydia Litvyak: an Italian writer was in Russia this past summer in the location where Litvyak's aircraft supposedly crash landed.

As the Soviets were returning to base near Orel, a pair of Bf 109 fighters dived on Lydia while she was attacking a large group of German bombers.Soviet pilot Ivan Borisenko recalled: “Lily just didn’t see the Messerschmitt 109s flying cover for the German bombers. She later became a legendary compere for the TVB variety show, “Enjoy Yourself Tonight”, which turned her into a household name. Lang: en Lydia Vladimirovna Litvyak (Russian: Лидия Владимировна Литвяк; 18 August 1921, in Moscow – 1 August 1943, in Krasnyi Luch), also known as Lilya, was a fighter pilot in the Soviet Air Force during World War II. No parachute was seen, and no explosion, yet she never returned from the mission. She claimed several Me-109s and Focke Wolfe 190s and Junkers 87 Dive Bombers.Litvyak flew her first combat flights in the summer of 1942 over Saratov.
He could not believe he was shot down by a female pilot and only when she accurately described all the maneuvers in the flight and knew it was true.Twice she crash landed and once she was hit and wounded in her plane and lost a lot of blood on the way down.On August 1, 1943, Lydia did not come back to her base of Krasnyy Luch, in the Donbass, Ukraine, from an escort to a flight of Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmoviks. He asked to see if it was true that he was shot down by a woman and he was allowed to meet her. Leading lights in Hong Kong’s entertainment and political circles paid tribute to Shum’s life and career, intertwined with the collective memories of many Hong Kong families. In the 437th Fighter Regiment, Litvyak scored her first two kills on 13 September, three days after her arrival and on her third mission to cover Stalingrad, becoming the first woman fighter pilot to shoot down an enemy aircraft.She shot down Staff Sergeant Erwin Maier, another German ace. Pasportnikova said that a specialist commission was formed to inspect the exhumed body and it concluded the remains were those of Litvyak.On May 6, 1990, USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev posthumously awarded Litvyak Hero of the Soviet Union

It was her fourth sortie of the day. She began flying when she was 14 and performed her first solo flight at 15. “She represented a kind of spirit that was respected by many Hong Kong people and her passing makes me feel very sad,” Tsang added, noting her gritty fight against cancer and the care she showed for her home city. Formerly married to actor Adam Cheng, Shum is survived by her daughter Joyce, who also has show business ambitions. Shum died on Tuesday at the age of 60, after a protracted battle with liver cancer. Borisenko descended to see if he could find her. Litvyak was 21 years old.Soviet authorities suspected that she might have been captured, a possibility that prevented them from awarding her the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.Two German pilots are believed to have shot down Litvyak: Feldwebel Hans-Jörg Merkle of 1./JG.52 and Leutnant Hans Schleef, of 7./JG 3. HONG KONG (Reuters Life!) REUTERS/Richard ChungShum, possibly Hong Kong’s equivalent of U.S. comedienne Roseanne Barr, was one of Hong Kong’s best-known entertainers and fondly called “Fei Fei” or “Fatty Shum” for her corpulent physique and exuberant personality. The entertainer, known for her high-pitched voice and laughter, initially built her career in Hong Kong, although her popularity later spread to Singapore, where she anchored the sitcom “Living with Lydia”, speaking in accented but fluent English. Born in Shanghai in 1947, Shum’s multi-faceted 40-year showbiz career began as a child actress with the Shaw Brothers Studio.

It is not in dispute that she was an aggressive and highly skilled aviator who was obsessed with flying and fighting the invading Nazis. For three years she was joined by relatives who together combed the most likely areas with a metal detector.In 1979, after uncovering more than 90 other crash sites, 30 aircraft and many lost pilots killed in action, “the searchers discovered that an unidentified woman pilot had been buried in the village of Dmitrievka… in Shakhterski district.”It was then assumed that it was Litvyak and that she had been killed in action after sustaining a mortal head wound. - Popular Hong Kong actress and comedienne Lydia Shum died on Tuesday at the age of 60, after a protracted battle with liver cancer. Her influence extended to greater China and Chinese communities the world over. Then they all disappeared behind a cloud.”Borisenko, involved in the dogfight, saw her a last time, through a gap in the clouds, her Yak-1 pouring smoke and pursued by as many as eight Bf 109s. Of course when Barbarossa broke out and the massive Wehrmacht was making its way into the interior of the country, she tried to fly for the Soviet Air Force.After being turned down several times she eventually was allowed into the 586th Fighter Regiment, the famed Soviet all-female regiment formed by Marina Raskova.

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