2. The “Night Witches”
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An all-female brigade of Soviet Union bomber pilots became knows as the “Night Witches” because of the silence of their planes during nighttime attacks.
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Women were originally barred from combat during WWII, but on October 8, 1941 Joseph Stalin deployed 3 units of female military aviators to drop bombs on the German military. The women were all volunteers in their late teens and early twenties.
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