588th Night Bomber Regiment

588th Night Bomber Regiment. Kyile from "The Magnificent Kotobuki" as a member of the WWII allfemale 588th Night Bomber In February 1943 the regiment was honored with the Guards designation and reorganized as the 46th Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment in the 325th Night Bomber Aviation Division,. They were the all-women pilots of Russia's 588th Night Bomber Aviation Regiment

In the United States, the history of the Women's Air Service Pilots (WASP) is reasonably well known, and their heroics are celebrated "Night Witches" 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

Soviet women pilots ' Night Witches' of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment. ca.1941. (757 x 933

When the regiment was deployed on the front line in June 1942, the 588th Night Bomber Regiment became part of the 4th Air Army of the Southern Front From 1942 to 1945, this all-female squadron dropped 23,000 tons of bombs and was feared by the Nazis. Raskova was the first woman to become a navigator in the Soviet Air Force and set many long-distance flying records while serving as an instructor at the Zhukosvky Air Academy

History“Night Witches” 588th Night Bomber Regiment History of Sorts. The 588th was so successful and deadly that the Germans came to fear them, calling them Nachthexen--night witches. The 588th Night Bomber Regiment was the brainchild of Marina Raskova, a famous pilot and navigator often called "the Soviet Amelia Earhart"

Flag for the WW2 Soviet 588th Night Bomber Regiment (aka The Night Witches) r/vexillology. From 1942 to 1945, this all-female squadron dropped 23,000 tons of bombs and was feared by the Nazis. But the Night Witches were the first women military pilots in the 20th century to directly engage an enemy in combat