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...Sept. 24, 1938 several Soviet air women took off from Moscow with Miss Raskova as their navigator, made a beeline of 3,715 miles to crack up in wild Kerbi swamplands for a new international women's distance record. On urgent orders from Moscow 50 planes and large Soviet land forces searched nine days for the aviatrixes. Afterwards Miss Raskova recalled that she subsisted on wild berries. Later Dictator Stalin, officially welcoming the distance fliers to the Kremlin, sternly observed that more care must be taken not to risk the lives of such heroic women as Miss Raskova...
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