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588th Night Bomber Regiment
- All told, the pioneering all-female 588th Night Bomber Regiment dropped more than 23,000 tons of bombs on Nazi targets. And in doing so, they became a crucial Soviet asset in winning World War II. The Germans nicknamed them the Nachthexen, or “night witches,” because the whooshing noise their wooden planes made resembled that of a sweeping broom.
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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 (Russian: 588-й ночной легкобомбардировочный авиационный полк, romanized: 588-y nochnoy ...
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The first women to become Night Witches did so in answer to a call put out by Radio Moscow in 1941, announcing that the country – which had already suffered devastating military personnel and equipment losses to the Nazis – was: Women, who were mostly in their twenties, came from all over the Soviet Union in hopes that they would be selected to hel...
In 1942, 3 of the 588thplanes took off on the regiment’s first mission. Although the Night Witches would unfortunately lose 1 plane that night, they were successful in their mission of bombing the headquarters of a German division. From that time onward, the Night Witches would fly over 24,000 sorties, sometimes completing as many as 15 to 18 missi...
The Night Witches were skilled pilots who could actually, if necessary, fly their planes low enough to be hidden by hedgerows. These talented pilots would also sometimes cut their engines as they approached a target in the dark for a silent but deadly attack, dropping bombs on the unsuspecting enemy before they could react and then restarting their...
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Jun 25, 2015 · In the Nazi-occupied Soviet Union, German soldiers had a very real fear of witches. Namely, the “Night Witches,” an all-female squadron of bomber pilots who ran thousands of daring...
- Eric Grundhauser
Dec 3, 2022 · Known as the "Night Witches," the 588th Night Bomber Regiment of the Soviet air force flew over 800 missions on the Eastern Front. They decorated their planes with flowers and painted their lips with navigational pencils — then struck fear into the hearts of the Nazis.
- John Kuroski
Jul 15, 2013 · The Night Bomber Regiment was one of three female fighter pilot units created by Stalin at the urging of Marina Raskova—an aviation celebrity who was, essentially, "the Soviet Amelia Earhart."
Mar 1, 2019 · The Night Witches were led by Marina Raskova, a famous Russian aviator who convinced Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin to use female bomber pilots after Germany invaded Russia.
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