They flew under cover of darkness in wooden planes with no radios, no weapons, and no fear. The Night Witches—an all-female Soviet bomber regiment—struck terror ...

“The Night Witches.” “Partly out of need, partly out of a sense of Communist egalitarianism, the Soviet Air Force in World War II was the only major arm to allow women to fly in combat units.

During WWII, Yevgeniya (Zhenya ... where girls would fly Po-2 dust cropper planes and bomb the Nazis at night. The Germans called them Night Witches. Video by Irina Sedunova, Produced by Anna ...