ORIGINAL - WW2 GERMAN FEMALE LUFTWAFFE PILOT * HANNA REITSCH PHOTO c1938

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ORIGINAL - WW2 GERMAN
FEMALE
LUFTWAFFE PILOT * HANNA REITSCH PHOTO c1938
RARELY SEEN ORIGINAL GLOSSY NEWS PHOTOGRAPH OF WW2 GERMAN
FEMALE
LUFTWAFFE PILOT * HANNA REITSCH. *
HANNA WEARS HER PILOTS BADGE AT A POLITICAL DINNER IN GERMANY NOVEMBER 15, 1938.
SHARP FOCUS WITH VERY GOOD CONTRAST.
SEPIA
CONDITION IS FINE THROUGHOUT WITH A SMALL 1/4" TEAR ON THE FRONT LEFT EDGE, SOME LIGHT SURFACE CRACKS AND HANDLING AROUND THE EDGES, NOT AFFECTING THE SUBJECT.
ON THE REVERSE
WELTBILD GmbH BERLIN
(LARGE NEWS COMPANY IN GERMANY DURING WW2) RUBBER STAMP AND PART OF A PAPER TAG THE ONCE DESCRIBED THE DETAILS OF THE PHOTO THAT WAS DETACHED AND LOST TO TIME.
DIMENSIONS: 5 1/8" x 7 1/8"
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* Hanna Reitsch (b.1912-d.1979)  was a German aviator and test pilot who flight tested many of Germany's new aircraft during World War II and received and set many honors, awards and records including:
List of awards and world records
1932: women's gliding endurance record (5.5 hours)
1936: women's gliding distance record (305 km (190 mi))
1937: first woman to cross the Alps in a glider
1937: the first woman in the world to be promoted to flight captain by Colonel Ernst Udet
1937: the first woman to fly a helicopter (Fa 61)
1937: world distance record in a helicopter (109 km (68 mi))
1938: the first person to fly a helicopter (Fa 61) inside an enclosed space (Deutschlandhalle)
1938: winner of German national gliding competition Sylt-Breslau Silesia
1939: women's world record in gliding for point-to-point flight.[60]
1943: While in the Luftwaffe, the first woman to pilot a rocket plane (Messerschmitt Me 163). She survived a disastrous crash though with severe injuries and because of this she became the first of three German women to receive the Iron Cross First Class.
1944: the first woman in the world to pilot a jet aircraft at the Luftwaffe research centre at Rechlin during the trials of the Messerschmitt Me 262 and Heinkel He 162
1952: third place in the World Gliding Championships in Spain together with her team-mate Lisbeth Häfner
1955: German gliding champion
1956: German gliding distance record (370 km (230 mi))
1957: German gliding altitude record (6,848 m (22,467 ft))