A colleague is researching pre-WW2 women pilot uniforms for a film being made here in the Emerald Isle (don’t ask).
She is asking for directions to any sites which may have good quality photos of women who combined their flight jackets with tweed skirts and low shoes. Similar to the Soviet “Nachthexen” who wore wooly skirts and high gaiters instead of boots.
She’s particularly looking for images of female pilots wearing (tweed or woolen) uniform skirts (any nation) from vaguely 1920 – 1945.
There was a site she frequented before but it’s gone due to copyright infringments she believes.
Any help will be gratefully received.
By: Slipstream - 4th December 2005 at 17:40
Wasn’t it Stalin who said “It takes a brave man(or woman) not to be a hero in the Red Army”
By: mike currill - 4th December 2005 at 16:10
The soviet women were very brave people IMO when you consider that some of them were flying night bombing raids in an aircraft that had, at best, a marginal performance with just the two crew on board let alone bombs as well (Po-2s I think)
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December 4, 2005 at 2:34 pm