Nadezhda Popova, a Soviet aviator who became one of the most celebrated of the so-called "Night Witches," female military pilots who terrorized the Nazi enemy with their nocturnal air raids during ...

Nadezhda Popova, a Soviet aviator who became one of the most celebrated of the so-called “Night Witches,” female military pilots who terrorized the Nazi enemy with their nocturnal air raids during ...

Unlike Soviet men, women were not formally conscripted into the armed forces. They were volunteers. But the haemorrhaging of the Red Army after the routs of 1941 saw mass campaigns to induct women ...

WASHINGTON — Nadezhda Popova, a Soviet aviator who became one of the most celebrated of the so-called ‘‘Night Witches,’’ female military pilots who terrorized the Nazi enemy with their nocturnal air ...

Nadezhda Popova was born in 1906 in the village of Kilifarevo. Her father was a teacher in the village and died during the Balkan War in 1912, when he contracted cholera on the front. Her three ...

The Nazis dubbed them the 'Night Witches', on account of the way they would cut their aircraft engines to silently swoop in before dropping their bombs. The 'whooshing' noise they made as they passed ...

For three years during World War II, Nadezhda Popova terrorized German troops fighting on the Eastern Front. The Soviet pilot was one of the most celebrated members of an elite all-female regiment ...

As a young woman, Nadezhda Popova volunteered as a pilot during World War II to drop bombs on German troops, flying planes made of plywood and canvas. Their enemies called them "Night Witches" because ...

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