The 587th Bomber Aviation Regiment
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Part 3 of our series on women in the Soviet air forces focuses on the 587th Bomber Aviation Regiment.
The 586th Fighter Aviation Regiment
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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
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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.