By the end of the war, the Night Witches had flown somewhere in the vicinity of 30,000 bombing raids, delivering around 23,000 tons of munitions right to Nazi's. The 588th lost 30 pilots during.
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Known before February 1943 as the 588th Night Bomber Regiment, the 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment was founded by legendary Soviet pilot Marina Raskova, known across the world as the "Russian Amelia Earhart.". At the outset of World War II, Raskova began receiving letters from women wanting to defend Russia from the air.
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The 588th wasn't the only female aviation regiment in the Red Army Air Force. The 587th Bomber Regiment, which used Pe-2 bombers and the 586th Fighter Aviation Regiment were also formed in.
Soviet women pilots ‘ Night Witches’ of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment. ca.1941. (757 x 933).
The Night Witches were the women of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment. All of the mechanics and bomb loaders of this regiment, as in the 586th IAP and the 587th Bomber Regiment, were also women. The Soviet women bomber pilots earned in total 23 Hero of the Soviet Union medals and dozens of Orders of the Red Banner.
Pilots of the 588th Night Light Bomber Aviation Regiment. Bombing guiding lines can be seen on
All told, the pioneering all-female 588th Night Bomber Regiment dropped more than 23,000 tons of bombs on Nazi targets. And in doing so, they became a crucial Soviet asset in winning World War II .
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Orna Merchant learns how, during World War Two, a desperate Soviet Union created three all-female aerial combat units. The most celebrated of these was the 588th Night Bomber Regiment.
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While two of them inevitably became mixed-gendered, the 588th Night Bomber Regiment remained exclusively women for the entirety of its existence. Around 400 women, ranging in age from 17 to 25.
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It was Tamara Pamyatnykh, one of the members of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment of the Soviet Air Forces. The 588th was the most highly decorated female unit in that force, flying 30,000 missions.
The Russian allwomen night bomber regiment 588, called the Night Witches due to the sound their
"Night Witches" (German: die Nachthexen; Russian: Ночные ведьмы, Nochnyye Vedmy) was a World War II German nickname for the all-female military aviators of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment, known later as the 46th "Taman" Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment, of the Soviet Air Forces.Though women were officially barred from combat at the time, Major Marina Raskova used her position.
Members of the Soviet 588th Night Bomber Regiment (later the 46th "Taman" Guards Night Bomber
"Night Witches" is the English translation of Nachthexen, a World War II German nickname for the female military aviators of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment, known later as the 46th "Taman" Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment, of the Soviet Air Forces.
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The Night Witches regiment was the most highly decorated all-female unit in the Red Air Force. Twenty-three of its pilots and navigators received the Hero of the Soviet Union medal, the USSR's highest valor award. ACG salutes the courage and skill of these Great Warriors. Originally published in the May 2015 issue of Armchair General.
Colorized photo of two officers in the 588th "Night Witches" Bomber Regiment, the USSR's most
At its largest, the 588th Night Bomber Regiment was made up of 40 two-person crews, all between the ages of 17 and 26. The women flew repurposed 1920s biplanes, made of canvas-draped plywood, that.
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The women were part of the Soviet Union's all-female 588th Night Bomber Regiment, and among the world's first female combat flight pilots. In the dark, they'd cut their engines and fly close.
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The Night Witches, officially known as the 588th Night Bomber Regiment, was a group of all-woman Soviet pilots who flew bombing missions against German forces during the Second World War. These pilots earned their nickname from the Germans, who noted that their Polikarpov Po-2 biplanes sounded like broomsticks.
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Ultimately, the only air squad that belonged exclusively to the dominion of women was the 588th Night Bomber Regiment — the Night Witches — where every single individual from the pilots to the commander to the mechanics was in fact female. Thus, in 1942, the assemblage of the regiment began to proceed in Engels, a small town near Stalingrad.
The Night Witches. The 588th Night Bomber Regiment operated by idling their Po2 biplanes and
According to the Wright Museum of World War 2, they were the all-women pilots of Russia's 588th Night Bomber Aviation Regiment.In World War II, American women such as the WASPs supported the war by ferrying and testing planes. But the Night Witches were the first women military pilots in the 20th century to directly engage an enemy in combat.