Marina Raskova (1912 – 1943) was a Soviet pilot and navigator. She was the first woman to become a navigator in the Soviet Air Force in 1933. She later became one of over 800,000 women in the military service, founding three female air regiments.
The stamp above was issued on21 March 2012, in honour of her 100th birth anniversary. It arrived on the back of this postcard send by
Eduard (Russia).
showing the SS Marina Raskova (a former American ship, renamed in June 1943). The postcard shows a non-American ship sunk by a German submarine in 1944. It was a transport refrigerator built for the USSR in Poland in 1971. Incidentally, in 1964 another ship named
Marina Raskova (a passenger river ship) was built for the USSR in Hungary. (Thanks, Eduard!)
The same day arrived this postcard from Bryon (the USA). It seems they are looking at the SS Marina Raskova from the desk!
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From Home and Away, 1935
By Florence and
Margaret Hoopes |
How nice, the people watching the ship on the last card!
ReplyDeleteAnd such a brave woman, in flying. A pity that she died so young..
To me it seems a special carreer, first music and then aviation (and bombing..).
The postcard shows a non-American ship sunk by a German submarine in 1944. It is a transport refrigerator which was built for the USSR in Poland in 1971.
ReplyDeleteIncidentally in 1964 in Hungary was built for the USSR another ship "Marina Raskova" - passenger river ship.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your explanations, Eduard.
DeleteFascinating - and what a pioneer Raskova was.
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