July 2: Canada creates the Canadian Women's Auxiliary Air Force (CWAAF).[80] Oct 8: Joseph Stalin creates 3 regiments of women pilots for the Soviet Union military, of which the 588th Regiment is later called the Night Witches.[81] Jacqueline Cochran of the United States is the first woman to fly a bomber across the North Atlantic.[1] Ada Rogato becomes the first certified woman paratrooper in Brazil.[66]