Vera Belik

Monument to Vera Belik.

Vera Belik (June 12, 1921 August 25, 1944) was a World War II navigator born in Yakymivka Raion, Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine.

She joined the Red Army in 1941 and became active from May 1942. She died on August 25, 1944, aged 23, on active duty, near Ostrołęka, Poland, having completed 813 bombing missions.

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