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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.
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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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.
3 de dez. de 2022 · The women of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment of the Soviet Air Forces — better known as the Night Witches — had no radar, no machine guns, no radios, and no parachutes. All they had onboard was a map, a compass, rulers, stopwatches, flashlights, and pencils.
- John Kuroski
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...
- Eric Grundhauser
15 de jul. de 2013 · Night Witches: The Female Fighter Pilots of World War II. Members of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment decorated their planes with flowers ... and dropped 23,000 tons of bombs. By Megan Garber....
25 de jun. de 2015 · atlas obscura. The Little-Known Story of the Night Witches, an All-Female Force in WWII. By Eric Grundhauser. June 25, 2015. From Sovfoto/UIG via Getty Images. In the Nazi-occupied Soviet...
