Night Witches Treasure Trove
I went digging in the big library today and found a couple of Russian aviation books. These are all written in Cyrillic characters and I don’t know what they are all about, but one is clearly focused on female aviators of the great patriotic War and the other has a boss cover and graphic design.:
Both are the real deal, printed on mouldering Soviet toilet-paper paper. The Soviet Union lionized the female flight crews, so there are plenty of staged propaganda photos to work with:
As well as tons and tons of headshots and personal photographs:
All this stuff is in the public domain and I need to figure out a way to use it. I think I need a Photo manipulation genius to help out because the original illos are a little low contrast and dodgy.
Comment by Marc Majcher
Posted on February 15, 2008 at 12:50 am
Wow, those are awesome.
Comment by madirishman
Posted on February 15, 2008 at 4:23 pm
The top one says “Stars on Wings.” Apparently written by an I.I. Babak. Besides names, the one under the plane reads, “And this is our “little swallow.”"