This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. It was written by Alexander Nazaryan and published on July 19, 2025.
Reina Pennington was interviewed and is quoted in the article.
“She was bright and ambitious as a young woman, but no one would have earmarked her for glory,” Reina Pennington, a historian at Norwich University in Vermont and an Air Force veteran who wrote a book about Soviet women fliers during World War II, said in an interview.
“The war gave her the opportunity to display extraordinary qualities, not through any single act of heroism, but through a kind of stamina and determination that extended combat duty required.”
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