Senior Lieutenant Vera Zhkov continually weaved her Biplane from the darkened sky into the bright search lights from below and back into the safety of the black shadows of the night. Machine-gun fire and rifle bullets zinged all around her as she maneuvered to drop her two bombs. Her fragile, two-seated, World War I Biplane was flying low enough for her to hear the Germans screaming and yelling as she pressed forward to her drop zone.
A shell from anti-aircraft cannons ripped through both wings of the plane; passing through to explode above her. The air was hard to breathe as the smoke from the discharged cannon filled her lungs and burned her eyes. The concussion from the blast caused her plane to be pushed downward, closer to the enemy below. Seconds later, bullets from a machine gun st
