Night Witches – all-female Soviet aviator regiment WW2
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Night Witches – all-female Soviet aviator regiment WW2
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#2Sabaton, a swedish historical power metal band, also wrote a song about these women if you're into that kind of thing.
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#3There is also a (very niche) TTRPG about the Night Witches by Jason Morningstar.
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#4There is also a (very niche) TTRPG about the Night Witches by Jason Morningstar.
Love the premise but couldn't get the night phase to work when I ran a one-shot. It quickly became repetitive thought that may have been just my lack of experience with the game.
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#6“An attack technique of the night bombers involved idling the engine near the target and gliding to the bomb-release point with only wind noise left to reveal their presence. Allegedly, German soldiers likened the sound to broomsticks and hence named the pilots "Night Witches".”
That’s an interesting story behind the name.
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No need to put down men to talk about how awesome this women's pilot team sounds.
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From a military perspective, fertile women are also useful for producing more soldiers, logistics workers, and taxpayers, making males preferrable draftees where their warfighting qualities are similar.
Russia has suffered ~1.4M casualties in Ukraine. If around half of those were fertile women it would increase the rate of their current demographic collapse by several percentage points.
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#9In the Apple TV series "Star City" the head of the KGB surveillance department is referred to as the "Night Witch"
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#10There's a pretty good depiction of them in David L. Robbins' Last Citadel.