Maria Fedorova

Мария Фёдорова

1919 – 2001

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Sergeant Maria Fedorova served as a pilot with the 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment, another of the legendary all-female aviation units. She flew over 800 combat sorties in her Po-2 biplane, often making multiple missions per night. After the war she worked as a test pilot at a Soviet aviation factory, then emigrated to Manchester in the 1990s with her daughter.

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Years

1919 – 2001

Region

Manchester

Rank

Sergeant

Branch

Soviet Army

Unit

46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment

Theaters of war

Eastern Front

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Submitted by Admin · April 2026

Source: low confidence

Real WWII veterans — British, Commonwealth, Soviet and Allied — held as encyclopaedic summaries: name, rank, unit and a short account of service, in English and Russian. What they lack is provenance, not reality: no cited source, and a photograph on only 10 of 692. Tier LOW (secondary source) records that absence. Added 2026-03-16 to 2026-04-19. On 2026-05-13 all 692 were flagged "formulaic ... functionally placeholder/demo content" and tiered SEED, on a cadence heuristic — one profile per day — without reading the subjects. That reading was wrong. Among them are documented figures including Group Captain Peter Townsend of 85 Squadron RAF, and real actions including the Pegasus Bridge coup de main at 00:16 on 6 June 1944. The characterisation is WITHDRAWN as untrue of real people. Corrected by R0 act, 2026-10-07: tier SEED -> LOW, and custodianship of these records is R0's own. His words: "they are all mine. I am grateful to all of them and each one of them for what they have done for us."