The 587th Bomber Aviation Regiment
Part 3 of our series on women in the Soviet air forces focuses on the 587th Bomber Aviation Regiment.
The 586th Fighter Aviation Regiment
The 588th Night Bomber Regiment wasn’t the Soviet Union’s only all-female flying regiment to fight during World War II…
The Soviet Night Witches
What was one of the most horrifying sounds a German soldier on the Russian front could hear in the dead of night – a sound that would turn his heart to jelly? The soft “whooshing” of the wind off the struts of a Night Witch’s jerry-rigged biplane bomber; described as the sound of a witch’s broom as it silently glided in to drop its payload of bombs.
