Wonder Women
Conflicted: A History Podcast
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The Night Witches
The women of the 580 eighth night bomber regiment flew in outdated, rickety biplanes and dropped bombs on unsuspecting german positions. The germans started hatefully calling them the noch hean or night witches because the whooshing sound of the wooden wings sounded like the whoosh a broomstick. On july nineteenth, 19 forty three, katya budanova gets into a dog fight with three german fighters,. She riddles one with bullets, shooting it down, she damaged the second forcing it to retreat. But the third damages her aircraft's wings, and she has to make an emergency landing. Lily litviac lost her best friend that day; two months earlier
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