The Archive · 1941

Brilliant Leader

he is one of our most brilliant flyers. Our first woman pilot, she is greatly admired by Turkish women.

"During the Kurdish rebellion ju. 1927, she took part in bombing and ec ice ce she married Captain Ah Kemal, also of the Turkish Air Force, she has never stopped her training activities.

They are taught all field war tactics, guerilla fighting, and swimming in rivers with rifles and others equipment.

"First, recruits are taught how to pilot gliders, Then they advance to trainer planes, and, finally fly operational aircraft." desirable, she had known all of life— and then met Ao

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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