Here is the 588th night mission light bomber regiment.
This all female unit got a nickname “Night Witches” by the Germans. And these brave girls were actually proud of their earned nickname.
Germans used to say about them: “We simply couldn’t understand that the Soviet airmen that caused us the greatest trouble were in fact WOMEN. These women feared nothing. They came night after night in their very slow biplanes, and for some periods they wouldn’t give us any sleep at all.”
Here is the 586th (all female) fighter regiment
Lidija “Lilia” Litvjak - the highest scored female ace in the world: 11 individual and 3 shared kills, plus 1 balloon destroyed. She was wounded 3 times; and then killed in combat on August 1, 1943.
Ekaterina Budanova - the 2nd top scoring female ace: 6 personal kills and 5 shared ones
- Smirnova Maria
- Meklin Natalia
-Sebrova Irina
- Anna Yegorova
Pictures by Alexey Koliush and Sergey Efimov and all of the credit goes to a very good website about the WW2 heroes and history “War is Over” here is the link for those who is interested http://wio.ru/
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