[quote]The Holocaust in Belarus refers to the Nazi crimes during the occupation of Belarus by Nazi Germany on the territory of contemporary Belarus, and against the ethnic Belarusians outside it. Belarus lost a quarter of its pre-war population, including most of its intellectual elite and 90% of the country’s Jewish population. Following encirclement battles, all of the present-day Belarus territory was occupied by the Nazi Germany by the end of August 1941. The Nazis imposed a brutal regime, deporting to Germany some 380,000 young people for slave labour, and killing hundreds of thousands of civilians more.[/quote]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust_in_Belarus

Seriously, flying in an easy to spot light bomber/dive bomber hybrid takes massive balls.
This isn’t the IL-2 where you have armor all around you and flying so low AA has a hard time tracking you…

36 sorties isn’t a large number for Soviet and European pilots (seriously, some of them had thousands of sorties, their lungs were burned by all the oxygen they breathed at high altitude) but each of those sorties in that deathtrap of a plane is worth 10 in an american B-17.

Massive respects to that woman.