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. Furious attacks by the ...

The Night Witches were largely unique among the female combatants -- and even the female flyers—of World War II. Other countries, the U.S. among them, ...

As a young woman, Nadezhda Popova volunteered as a pilot during World War II to drop bombs on German troops, flying planes made of plywood and canvas. Their enemies called them "Night Witches ...

The Night Witches didn’t have great planes, or superior bombs, or even very much support for their unit, but they nonetheless became one of the most remarkable fighting forces of World War II.

Raspopova and her co-pilot were members of the Soviet 588th Air Regiment, a deadly, all-female squadron of bombers during World War II. Their enemies dubbed them the Nächthexen, or Night Witches, and ...

Meet the Night Witches! Posted: March 12, 2025 | Last updated: March 12, 2025 They flew under cover of darkness in wooden planes with no radios, no weapons, and no fear.

Reading the graphic novel The Night Witches, about female pilots who flew for the Russians in World War II, I thought about Jane Austen.More specifically, I thought about Helena Kelly's 2017 book ...

The Night Witches, as they were known, were equipped with slow PO-2 biplanes (pages 94-95); nevertheless, in the course of ...

(Photo: Night Witches of Russia, WW2 female fighter pilots. Credit: Nikolai Ignatiev/Alamy) Show less. Available now 27 minutes Last on. Sun 5 Feb 2023 05:32 GMT. BBC World ...

Weaving a gothic-fantasy of the all-female Soviet WW2 bomber pilots the ‘Night Witches’, Membering the Night Witches presents an auto-baptism and auto-fertilisation calling for urgent ...