A new episode of the BBC's History's Secret Heroes podcast focuses on the Night Witches, a group of Russian female aviators ...

The Night Witches were an elite team of all-female bomber pilots who flew old cropdusting planes and kicked so much Nazi ass. Popova died at 91, a veteran of 852 bombing missions. That's about how ...

Their enemies dubbed them the Nächthexen, or Night Witches, and offered awards and honors to soldiers who shot them down. The women embraced the term, and it emboldened them to continue their ...

With nothing but old biplanes and relentless courage, an all-female Soviet bomber regiment terrorized the Nazi war machine. The Germans called them "The Night Witches" - but their true story is even ...

They flew under cover of darkness in wooden planes with no radios, no weapons, and no fear. The Night Witches—an all-female Soviet bomber regiment—struck terror ...