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The Night Witches’ Winged Whispers

During WWII, the all-female Soviet bomber regiment, the 588th Night Bombers, flew silent, engine-off night raids against the Nazis. To maintain stealth, they would drift like ghosts. Their adversaries called them "Night Witches," terrified by the eerie sound of their powerless Polikarpov Po-2 planes gliding through the dark sky before unleashing their payloads.
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