The Night Witches: an all-women crew who dropped bombs at night
In a story just waiting to be made into a big-screen thriller based on real events, comes the Nachthexen — German for “The Night Witches.” Also known as Stalin’s Falcons,…
North Korean ‘Night Witches’ raided United Nations bases during the Korean War
During World War II, the Red Army employed old canvas and wood built biplanes to instill fear in the German Army on the Eastern Front. A squad of all-female pilots…
Night Witches: The female pilots who struck fear into the Nazis
With what is arguably one of the most badass names in military history, the story of the female aviators nicknamed Nachthexen, or “Night Witches” by German soldiers, tends to fly…
These were the daring WWII female pilots known as the ‘Night Witches’
Throughout the 1930s pilots around the world were continually trying to push the limits of anything that had been done before in the air. While the likes of Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart are more familiar names in the Western World, the Sovie…
These daring Russian women in aging aircraft haunted Nazi dreams
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In 1941, after the Germans invaded the Soviet Union, famous aviatrix Marina Raskova lobbied Joseph Stalin to form regiments of women pilots. …