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Night Witches – all-female Soviet aviator regiment WW2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Witches
41•gverrilla•3d ago

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gustavus•1h ago
Sabaton, a swedish historical power metal band, also wrote a song about these women if you're into that kind of thing.

https://www.sabaton.net/discography/heroes/night-witches/

oliculipolicula•32m ago
https://youtu.be/0VGqHPeMoEA

And if you are into all kinds of things

msabalau•1h ago
There is also a (very niche) TTRPG about the Night Witches by Jason Morningstar.
jpmoral•1h ago
Love the premise but couldn't get the night phase to work when I ran a one-shot. It quickly became repetitive thought that may have been just my lack of experience with the game.
mbrd•33m ago
And also a board game that I'm looking forward to coming in Fall 2026 by Liz Davidson and David Thompson (art by Ian O'Toole): https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/388558/night-witches
archerx•1h ago
“An attack technique of the night bombers involved idling the engine near the target and gliding to the bomb-release point with only wind noise left to reveal their presence. Allegedly, German soldiers likened the sound to broomsticks and hence named the pilots "Night Witches".”

That’s an interesting story behind the name.

HelloUsername•50m ago
In the Apple TV series "Star City" the head of the KGB surveillance department is referred to as the "Night Witch"
cjs_ac•35m ago
There's a pretty good depiction of them in David L. Robbins' Last Citadel.
derektank•11m ago
In the US and the UK, members of the WAAC (Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps) and the WAAF (Women’s Auxiliary Air Force) numbered in the tens of thousands, where they served as switchboard operators, air traffic controllers, and deployed barrage balloons. They occasionally got close to combat, the UK’s Flying Nightingales who served as air-ambulance nurses, first flew into Normandy just a week after D-Day to evacuate servicemembers injured during the initial assault. Both countries also employed many female aviators as training and cargo pilots, but they were almost all civilian employees of the armed forces unlike members of the WAAC and WAAF.

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Night Witches – all-female Soviet aviator regiment WW2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Witches
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