Wait...That Really Happened?

Episode One: The 587th and 588th Female Aviation Regiments of WWII


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A small group of female aviators taking on the Nazis in WWII.


Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/125th_Guards_Bomber_Aviation_Regiment

https://www.wrightmuseum.org/2020/11/16/the-587th-bomber-aviation-regiment/

https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/world-war-ii-history

https://www.theworldwar.org/learn/women#:~:text=Women%20Soldiers&text=Her%20all%2Dfemale%20battalion%20of,Kerensky%20Offensive%20in%20July%201917.

http://thefemalesoldier.com/blog/marina-raskova

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/red-air-force-heroines-the-night-witches/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/46th_Army_(Soviet_Union)#:~:text=The%2046th%20Army%20was%20a,helped%20capture%20Maykop%20and%20Krasnodar.

https://aircrewremembered.com/soviet-night-witches-pilots.html 

https://www.rbth.com/history/336020-how-soviet-women-fought-germans

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