I could fly circles around this Jerry girl. Novel choice of OS.

All things being equal, then Hanna Reitsch would have downed Cohran easily in her choice of Bf 109K-4, Fw-190D series, or Me-262 jet! As it was, Lilya (Lidya)Litvak holds the highest female fighter ace score at 12 kills + 2 probable, and 1 balloon for her short career. She was the "White Rose of Stalingrad" who used to fly with flowers in her cockpit. She flew the Yak-1 and Yak-1b. It took 8 Messers to bring her down. She died in an inverted crash... sad. I have her picture on one of my walls- a true hero and Hero of the Soviet Union. The VVS allows women to fly fighters now again and there is a excellent Su-32 Fullback female pilot that struck during the fighting with Georgia many years back. I wrote about her too.

Also note that although the Luftwaffe forbid women to fly and fight under the 3Ks (translated Church, Children, and Kitchen) making baby soldiers for the Reich instead, that did not apply to the SS Werwolf program in 1945. One woman reported and guided SS soldiers to the Mayor of Aachen's home and they killed him. She still continued to live there and was proud of what she did. Another female Werwolf in the Soviet Sector of Berlin killed possibly up to 13 Reds using poison, knives, garrote wire, and a SMG. She was executed and left to rot in the rubble for days before buried in an undisclosed grave.

that story was verified as counterfeit years ago. Repeating all these posts from your old 2010 WW11 site is pointless.

The story was indeed controversial many years ago, but many believed that the errors were in translation from German to English and it was compared to similar male LW accounts of the 1960s that were vague in nature but true. Hanna's story is certainly true and her formation of the Reichenberg R.IV squads which would include female pilots. Many NSFK female pilot trainers as well as German female ferry pilots already had flying experience and FYI, as fact, many Bf 109 pilots learned technical training from female instructors. Also, Black Sun was not and is not my site- I am hosted there and the owner has tacked-on various stories to my articles as well as other references that I do not necessarily endorse. My texts are unboxed. If I added anything that is in boxed format, my name will be on it. Black Sun is also not a WW2 site, it is a controversy and weird factoid site with many topics. My contributions include(d) disc aircraft, unusual small arms, strange vehicles, female Bundeswehr, WW1 German aircraft, rare aircraft, and 3 Star Wars independent novels. My host rearranged his site many years ago and I left. He cut a lot of my materials and also added a lot of his stuff that is controversial. This account is his addition. AFAIK, from the old forum accounts and talk was that they were trying to verify dates and locations claimed. If there has been a definate change then I welcome you to post the ref and also go to Black Sun Redux and post the same to comments. Another female pilot was trained by her LW b/f on a Me Bf 109G trainer and was claimed to have flown into combat with Mustangs attacking his base. The only thing of that account that seems factual was that she was definately illegally trained and that her LW b/F and her were questioned by authorities and separated. I do not know if she took off or not when she was visiting his base. There are many things about WW2 on all sides that were either exaggerations or outright lies, during and after the war and also seemingly impossible things that proved true. I present all sides and most of the controversial topics. The USAF and US Govt denied for 50 years that the Germans had disc craft and then admitted them in 1995 but presented minimal information- that they were prototypes and highly unstable. No designations, manufacturers, production pics, flight footage, operators, etc... that tech is STILL classified until 2020 by the USAF and the Jonastal S.III complex is classified until 2045 by the AEC!!! Facts are sometimes stranger than fiction. WHY 75-100 yr classifications? And this story is really no different than pilots that fell from the sky at 20,000 ft and survived w/o a parachute, attempts to kill the Royal family with explosive candy bar grenades, the use of dog mines, the MI5 plan to get estrogen into Hitler to feminize him, talking Nazi dogs, the German sub anchor in the Baltic, and I could go on and on... life is weird. Nothing the Germans tried as bizarre seems unrealistic.