The Night Witches and the Soviet women who bombed the Eastern Front in plywood biplanes
The Night Witches were Soviet women who flew obsolete biplanes on daring nighttime bombing raids against German forces from 1942 to 1945.
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The Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik pulled from a Russian lake and the sixty-year swim that ended in a hangar
How Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmoviks survived sixty years underwater and the painstaking effort to restore history's most-produced combat aircraft.
TaildraggerThe Night Witches and the Polikarpov Po-2 biplanes that terrorized the Eastern Front
The Night Witches flew obsolete wood-and-canvas biplanes on 23,000+ combat missions, terrorizing German forces with silent glide-bombing attacks.
TaildraggerThe Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik pulled from a Russian lake and the quest to fly the most-produced warplane in history
The story of how the most-produced military aircraft in history was pulled from a Russian lake and restored to flight.
TaildraggerThe Night Witches and the Soviet women who bombed the Eastern Front in plywood biplanes
The Night Witches of the 588th Regiment flew plywood biplanes with dead engines through enemy fire, completing over 23,000 combat sorties on the Eastern Front.
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