Commander of the unit (deputy leader) of the 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment of the 325th Night Bomber Division of the 4th Air Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front, Guard lieutenant. Hero of the Soviet Union.

On the fronts of the WW2 since May 1942. Crew navigator, unit navigator, later - a pilot, commander of 46 Taman Guards Night Bomber Regiment. During the years of WW2 has made 915 sorties to bomb manpower and equipment of the enemy. Nina Ulyanenko dropped on the enemy 120 tons of bombs, caused 135 fires, destroyed four crossings, 4 warehouses of ammunition, fuel and lubricants, 10 vehicles, four artillery batteries

Hero of the Soviet Union Nina Ulyanenko

Destroyed German Panzer Panther PzKpfw V in Belarusian Battlefield.
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Destroyed German Panzer Panther PzKpfw V  2.0

Before the war, she studied at the Moscow State University and has been an instructor of one of the capital's flying clubs. Her military career began in the women's 586 th Fighter regiment, protecting the sky of Saratov. In aerial combat the brave girl was hit, personally and in the group with his friends, three enemy aircraft.
July 17, 1943 in an unequal battle Quartet of our pilots against 30 enemy aircraft, she was shot down and her fate remained unknown for a long time.
In 1982 near the village Betovo, Oryol Region, was a plane excavated, that crashed in the summer of 1943.
The remains of the pilot, his parachute, a pistol, a knife and documents were found. Among other documents were flight and medical books, where clearly was written the name of the holder: Antonina Lebedeva. More than that - there was the headset with fragments of a skull and two girlish pigtails.