Presentation of the Guards Banner to the 46th Womens Regiment of Light Night Bombers

North Caucasian Front, Stanitsa Ivanovskaya, June 10, 1943. Ceremonial presentation of the Guards Banner to the 46th Guards Women's Regiment of Light Night Bombers under the command of Major Evdokia Davydovna Bershanskaya (Bocharov). Major General Alexander Yakovlevich Fominykh, member of the Military Council of the North Caucasian Front, congratulates the flight crew of the regiment with the award. Among those present: the commander of the 4th Air Army Konstantin Andreevich Vershinin, the commissar of the regiment Evdokia Yakovlevna Rachkevich, the chief of staff of the regiment Irina Vyacheslavovna Rakobolskaya, technician-lieutenant Evdokia Dmitrievna Titova, flight commander Natalya Fedorovna Mekrira Gurmantsevna Andreevna Nikulina. The regiment personnel in solemn formation pronounce the words of the oath, pass in formation (among them - [E. Rudneva, V. Belik]). Airplanes in the sky. Smoke from a downed German plane. A German plane is smoking on the ground.

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1943