Squadron Commander, Raisa Surnachevskaya, a SovietWorld War IIfighter pilot, was, according to (and see also ), "surely the only pregnant frontline pilot in the history of combat."
Surnachevskaya was one of "Stalin's Falcons", and a woman. Glancy quotes Surnachevskaya saying, "We didn't know we were special". Surnachevskaya is remembered above some of her comrades because of the iconic taken of her.