SOVIET GIRLS
FLY PLANES TO RUSSIA Russian women pilots are playing a prominent role in United Nations LendLease by piloting planes from Alaska to the Russian front after they have been flown to the Far North from United States factories (says the ' Christian Science Monitor '), Planes hearing the Soviet' insignia, a plain red star, have been seen by Albertans in Edmonton and along the Alaska Highway for some time. They are flown via Edmonton and the string of Alaska Highway airports to Fairbanks, where the Russians take them over. Not'all the pilots are women. None of the Russian women pilots has been seen on Edmonton streets, although Russian male pilots have been seen ia public there.
[Existence of a North-western Canadian air ferrv route from the United States to Russia was disclosed in Washington by Robert P. Patterson, Undersecretary of War.]
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Evening Star, Issue 25070, 11 January 1944, Page 3
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141SOVIET GIRLS Evening Star, Issue 25070, 11 January 1944, Page 3
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