soviet airwomen in WW2 "Night witches"

documentary newsreel: - 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment.
More information about the "night witches" as well as hotos and other links:
http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/soviet_women_pilots.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Witches
http://www.elknet.pl/acestory/raskov/raskov.htm
http://jpgleize.club.fr/aces/ww2fem.htm
http://warandgame.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/female-faces-of-the-air-war/

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[revolutionist37]

Rest in peace heroines...

[DiegoMarquesLopes]

Female Red Air Commandos! This is very nice...I like it!

[safetychoice]

They were a beautiful as they were brave.

[AndrewAnferov]

@purplepimpernel it was 7-10 military deaths and 20 millions of civilian. learn history dumbass and stfu

[purplepimpernel]

@Vanyaaynav I don't know WHO you are. I didn't say anything that couldn't be proven on a social scale.

[Vanyaaynav]

@purplepimpernel You to me tell story of the Soviet Russia?LOL.1941-1945 the Soviet people protected the native land. In the Second World War the Soviet people were patriots of the country and trusted in a victory over the enemy. These Russian girls also patriots.In the worst case they could fly through a front line and surrender in a captivity, but it doesn't happen. Any of night witches wasn't taken prisoner.

[purplepimpernel]

@Vanyaaynav The people of the various states of the USSR 1917-1945. Suffered more than any people in the west even Germany. The Germans didn't try to kill their own. It seems that killing was the main program of the Soviets. More Soviet people died before WWII than anywhere else. Then WWII came along with 20million military deaths. It is not the crime of current people in these states. From where I stand the US seems to have embarked on a program of aggression & killing as well.

[ElenaXVI]

These women were brave and independent, REAL individualists. I hate it how that word gets slanted nowadays. People like these women are real tough individuals, and society needs such people, not hipster whores who think they're badass because they bleached their hair and donned an ironic t-shirt...

[nojob60]

Russian Girls PAWN the Nazis.......Love it.