In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Vladimirovna and the family name is Litvyak.
Lydia Litvyak
Litvyak, c. 1941-43
Native name
Лидия Владимировна Литвяк
Nickname(s)
Lilya
"White Lily of Stalingrad"
"White Rose of Stalingrad"
Born
(1921-08-18)18 August 1921 Moscow, Russian SFSR
Died
1 August 1943(1943-08-01) (aged 21) near Kozhevnia, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Allegiance
Soviet Union
Service/branch
Soviet Air Force
Years of service
1941–1943
Rank
Senior lieutenant
Unit
586th Fighter Aviation Regiment
9th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
73rd Guards Fighter Regiment
Battles/wars
Eastern Front of World War II
Awards
Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumous)
Lydia Vladimirovna Litvyak (Russian: Лидия Владимировна Литвяк; 18 August 1921 – 1 August 1943), also known as Lilya, was a fighter pilot in the Soviet Air Force during World War II.[1] Historians estimate for her total victories range from thirteen to fourteen solo victories and four to five shared kills in her 66 combat sorties.[2][3][4][5][6]
In about two years of operations, she was the first female fighter pilot to shoot down an enemy aircraft, the first of two female fighter pilots who have earned the title of fighter ace and the holder of the record for the greatest number of kills by a female fighter pilot. She was shot down near Orel during the Battle of Kursk as she attacked a formation of German aircraft.
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II. Usually credited with five or more aerial victories, along with LydiaLitvyak, she is often considered one of the world's two female fighter aces...
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take part in 4,419 combat missions (125 air battles and 38 kills). LydiaLitvyak and Yekaterina Budanova were assigned to the unit before joining the...
man, Aleksander Gridnev. The regiment yielded two female flying aces, LydiaLitvyak and Yekaterina Budanova, who were posthumously awarded the titles Hero...
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one of the first Russian female fighter pilots. She fought alongside LydiaLitvyak and was credited with up to three aerial victories. She died in combat...
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scored 65 victories. It also claimed the only female aces of the war: LydiaLitvyak scored 12 victories and Yekaterina Budanova achieved 11. The highest...
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The Soviets also had the only women to be considered flying aces. LydiaLitvyak was credited with different numbers of kills from various sources, but...
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Yakovlev UT-1 plane was hit in aerial combat. She and fellow-Soviet LydiaLitvyak were the only two women to be recognized as "aces" for having shot down...
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he was surprised by another Yak-1 flown by future leading female ace LydiaLitvyak and had to bail out of his flaming Bf 109 G-2. He became a POW. On 1...
wearing a baseball cap with a rose design on the crown. Elvy parallels LydiaLitvyak, a World War II female fighter ace nicknamed the "White Rose of Stalingrad"...
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