I-Air RAM - isikhali sokugcina ithuba; Ukwemukela ukulwa komoya, kwavela eRussia futhi kusetshenziswe kaningi ngabashayeli bezindiza, ababesesimweni esingenathemba.
Wonke umuntu ukhumbula uPeter Nestov - umshayeli waseRussia, owaqala ukuvalwa ngendiza yomphikisi ngoSepthemba 8, 1914. Kepha akuyena wonke umuntu owaziyo ukuthi ngemuva kweminyaka engama-27 nezinsuku ezine - Septhemba 12, 1941, i-Ekaterina Ivanovna Zelonko yaba ngowesifazane wokuqala nowokuphela kowesifazane owayene-Air Ram.
UCatherine Zelenko wasaba ekuseni kakhulu ezulwini. Kakade ngasekupheleni kwabayisikhombisa, wayazi ukuthi wayezoba umshayeli wezindiza, futhi ngokungaguquki waya ephusheni lakhe. I-Voronezh Aeroclub, Orenburg Military Avaliation School, idiploma ngezihlonipho. Mayelana noKate Zelenko wathi yadalwa isibhakabhaka.
I-Ekaterina Ivanovna yafika empini enkulu yokuthanda izwe ngesipiliyoni sokulwa okuqinile. Wahlanganyela empini yaseSoviet-Finnish futhi wayekuye ukuphela kowesifazane wokushayela. Ukhiphe amahlandla ayisishiyagalombili kulo msebenzi, wabhubhisa ibhethri le-artillery kanye ne-armunition warehouse, wanikezwa umyalo wesibhengezo esibomvu. Kusukela ngoMeyi 1940, uCatherine Zelenko wasebenza ku-135th Boumbardiment Regiment futhi wangena esikhundleni sePhini Lomphathi weSquadron.
Ekuhambeni kwakhe kokugcina kokulwa, u-Ekaterona Zelenko wahamba ngoSepthemba 12, 1941 edolobheni laseRomny. Kwakuwukuhamba kwakhe kwesithathu kosuku, uSu-2, andiza awonakaliswe ngalo, kodwa kwakudingeka acwengeke ngokushesha isimo kanye nokuqondiswa kokuphumelela kwamathangi aseJalimane, futhi ithempeli lomshayeli wendiza laya ku umsebenzi futhi.
Endleleni ebuyela emuva, umusi weSu-2 wahlaselwa yimiyalezo eyisikhombisa. Indiza yombhangqwana oholayo - UCaptain Lebedev walimala ngokushesha washiya le mpi, futhi i-ekaterina Ivanovna, kanye neNikolay Nikolai Pavlyk, yathatha impi. Ukwazile ukungqongqoza omunye wabahlaseli bakwaNazis, esevele ewuse-Slow Su-2. Kepha indiza yaseZelenko nayo igcwele. I-navigator yalinyazwa yathola umyalo wokuthi yagxuma ngokushesha nge-parachute futhi yahamba ibuyele ubuhlakani bakhe, futhi waqhubeka nokulwa.
Wayengazi isiphetho se-Commander Pavlyk, kuphela ngemuva kwempi evela kubantu bendawo esuka edolobhaneni lase-Anastasyevka, kungenzeka ukuthi bathole ukuthi uZelenko waqhubeka nokulwa kuze kube yilapho ama-cartridge aphelile. Kepha akuzange kuyeke intombi enesibindi, futhi wagijima endizeni ezungeze amaNazi.
"Messerschmit" babamba amakhilomitha ambalwa ngaphambi kokuwa, futhi indiza kaCatherine Ivanovna yawa ngokushesha kwathi yabamba umlilo. Abalimi bakwazi ukukhipha kuphela isidumbu se-heroine. Iflaya lengcwatshwe ngokushesha, futhi amadokhumenti asindile ngokuyisimangaliso atholakala eduze kwendiza egcina uthisha wasemakhaya. Lokhu yikho okulandelayo okusungula inkambo yempi yokugcina ye-Catherine Zelenko.
I-Ekaterina Ivanovna yanikeza umyalo weLenin, kodwa ngemuva kwempi, isikhathi eside, intombazane yentombazane yeqhawe laseSoviet Union yafunwa yintombazane enesibindi isikhathi eside. Kungenzeka ngo-1990 kuphela, lapho i-oda elihambisanayo lisayina uMikhail Gorbachev.
Igama le-heroine laqanjwa ama-Sporees emadolobheni ahlukene eSoviet Union, umkhumbi, iVoronezh Aviaklube ngisho neplanethi encane. Endaweni yokufa kwe-heroine, izikhumbuzo zafakwa eBerestovka naseKursk, nasesikoleni lapho afunda khona, kwadalwa uMnyuziyamu we-Catherine Zelenko.