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7 de jul. de 2017 · The Night Witches. They flew under the cover of darkness in bare-bones plywood biplanes. They braved bullets and frostbite in the air, while battling skepticism and sexual harassment on the...
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"Night Witches" (German: die Nachthexen; Russian: Ночные ведьмы, Nochnyye Vedmy) was a World War II German nickname for the all-female military aviators of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment, known later as the 46th "Taman" Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment, of the Soviet Air Forces.
3 de dez. de 2022 · The Night Witches: The All-Female World War II Squadron That Terrified The Nazis. By John Kuroski | Edited By Jaclyn Anglis. Published December 3, 2022. Updated November 7, 2023. The all-female members of the Soviet's 588th Night Bomber Regiment painted their planes with flowers and attacked Nazi forces across the Eastern Front.
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15 de jul. de 2013 · Each night, in general, 40 planes—each crewed by two women, a pilot and a navigator—would fly eight or more more missions. Popova herself once flew 18 in a single night. (The multiple nightly...
By Irene Jagla. Besides having what just might be the coolest name in aviation history, the Night Witches were a tough bunch of women pilots and navigators who stood their own against the male-dominated Soviet military ranks. Their sacrifices earned them national acclaim and their accomplishments were a result of the Soviet Union’s desperate ...
18 de jun. de 2015 · Namely the Night Witches, an all-female squadron of bomber pilots who ran thousands of daring bombing raids with little more than wooden planes and the cover of night—and should be as...
The group’s main mission was to harass and strike fear into the Nazis by bombing enemy targets at night, which it did with such success that the Germans nicknamed them the ‘Nachthexen’, the Night Witches.
