The Night Witches were an all-female Soviet bomber regiment that attacked Nazi forces during World War II. An attack ...
Today (tonight?) we’re talking about a chilling chapter from flight history— Night Bomber Regiment 588. They were a group of about 80 Soviet women who flew combat missions during World War II. Led by ...
The Night Witches used the Polikarpov PO-2 to make life miserable for Wehrmacht ground troops. As part of its Women’s History ...
While it would take until 1993 for the United States to have its first female fighter pilot, the Soviet Union had many women flying combat missions during its Great Patriotic War (World War II) ...