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Natalia A. Kostenyuk. March 28, 1912–January 4, 1943 long distance record: Moscow to Komsomolsk total distance - 6,450 km duration - 26 hours and 29 minutes.

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1 Natalia A. Kostenyuk

2 March 28, 1912–January 4, 1943 long distance record: Moscow to Komsomolsk total distance - 6,450 km duration - 26 hours and 29 minutes

3  The 586th Women's Fighter Regiment  The 587th Women's Bomber Regiment  The 588th Women's Night Bomber Regiment, the famous "Night Witches"

4  4,419 sorties (per pilot)  more than 125 separate air battles  38 confirmed kills

5  flew 1,134 missions,  droped over 980,000 tons of bombs

6  made 24,000 combat flights  dropped 23,000 tons of bombs  was awarded the Soviet Union's highest collective military honor.

7  Tambov Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots;  125-th Guards pikirovochno-bombing aviation;  Streets in many cities of the former USSR (Vladivostok, Kaliningrad, Moscow, Kiev, Engels, Saratov, Tyumen, Saransk, Lipetsk, and others);  Square in Moscow (CAO);  the namesake of an American Liberty ship;  ship on the Volga;  the Soviet carrier, destroyed a German submarine in the Kara Sea 12 Aug, 1944.

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