Women 's Flying Corps In The Soviet Union' S Great Patriotic War

The Soviet Union women have joined the anti-fascist battle at all costs during the Great Patriotic War. The aviation group 122 formed by Marina Raskova was most outstanding. This article bases on existing materials, tries to analyze the process of how women aviation group 122 dismissed and its historical significancet.This article includes introduction,main text,and conclusion. Introduction sums up the comprehensive commentary on the study of women aviation group 122 about its relevant historical data and modern studying conditions in the world. The text Chapter I accounts for the national patriotic, the improvement of women’s legal status, and women flight’s experience for female pilots able form provides a good foundation. Then, based on the above factors, it is concluded that the flight staff shortages, marina raskova’s appeal, popular demand, and stalin’s support four factors are the reason of female flight regiment able success. Chapter II mainly accounts for the process of the soviet female aviation regiment formed from respects of recruitment, training and equipment; then,by discussing the operational process and features during the Great Patriotic War, it shows the outstanding contributions and fighting spirit of the soviet women aviation regiments during the Great Patriotic War. Chapter III mainly explores the cause of the dismiss of soviet women aviation regiment from aspects of cultural ideas of gender roles, planned exclusion of women from the postwar military and the psychology of war-weariness, which reveals cultural ideas of gender roles is mainstream. Then it shows the fate of soviet female aviation regiment and the influence of war to them.Chapter Ⅳ evaluates the soviet female aviation regiment. Firstly, these regiments are forces to be reckoned with in the Great Patriotic War. Secondly, female aviation regiment which combated in war promoted the soviet women’s liberation movement further.