Alexandra Vladimirovna Khoroshilova - the heroine of the Great Patriotic War, one of the legendary "Night Witches". After the war, Alexandra taught for a long time at the Odessa Higher Marine Engineering College.
Biography
Sasha was born in a poor family of peasants on February 2, 1922, graduated from the seven-year school, and then enrolled in pedagogical school. She was accepted without exams as an excellent student. The girl studied almost desperately, although times were hard and hungry. But she understood that she wanted to achieve a lot in life.
At the school, Alexandra showed industriousness and perseverance, besides she joined the Komsomol and was actively engaged in social activities. And therefore, having received a school diploma, again as an excellent student and activist, she was sent free of charge to Moscow to continue her education.
Military career
"Dunkin Regiment" - so jokingly and lovingly called the squad of brave pilots under the leadership of Evdokia Davydovna, whom the whole world knows as "Night Witches", leading to a real panic. The Forty-Sixth Taman Regiment raided exclusively at night, before diving, turning off the engines of its light "corncrackers" and silently crashing into enemy positions.
The heroism of these often very young women is undeniable, their names are legendary. It was here that the beauty Sasha began and triumphantly ended the battle, liberating the Caucasus, Crimea and Belarus, reaching Germany, finding her love and writing her name in history.
From the very beginning of the war, Aleksandra Khoroshilova strove to get to the front. She wanted to be a pilot, but only those who completed three institute courses were taken to study in the navigational group. Sasha did not have enough years, and she was sent to the armed forces.
Having brilliantly completed these courses, Alexandra got the position of an armament technician and was assigned to that same famous forty-sixth guards night regiment by the Komsomol, and she soon mastered the skills of a navigator and began flying with her associates. On the account of the Komsomol Khoroshilova, a young woman of the smallest height in the regiment, more than a hundred sorties, the Order of the Red Banner and World War II.
