NIGHT WITCHES, a new play following the true story of the first all-female Soviet combat pilots of the 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment, will be performed at The MUSE on 350 Moffat Street Brooklyn, ...

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Here’s What You Need to Know: The “Night Witches” were one of only three regiments to remain a solely female unit throughout the war. While it would take until 1993 for the United States to have its ...

While it would take until 1993 for the United States to have its first female fighter pilot, the Soviet Union had many women flying combat missions during its Great Patriotic War (World War II) ...

To my shame, I'd never heard of the "Night Witches" until reading that Nadezhda Popova died earlier this month. Once I learned more, I was amazed. The Night Witches were an elite team of all-female ...

Nadezhda Popova, a Soviet aviator who became one of the most celebrated of the so-called "Night Witches," female military pilots who terrorized the Nazi enemy with their nocturnal air raids during ...

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 only all-female WWII fighter-pilot regiment gets its day on screen in “Night Witches.” Though reduced to a footnote in history books, the 588th Night Bomber Regiment became the most decorated unit ...

In the 1930s, with the black clouds of war gathering over the skies of Europe once more, the Soviet Union under Josef Stalin pushed to demonstrate its technical prowess to the rest of the world, ...