They approached enemy targets in fragile wooden biplanes—then cut their engines and glided through the darkness.
Meet the Night Witches, the Soviet women of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment. Flying open-cockpit Po-2 aircraft, they carried out more than 23,000 combat sorties during World War II. Their quiet nighttime approaches earned them the German nickname “Nachthexen”—Night Witches.
This video tells their story using AI-generated historical reconstructions. The images are not original wartime photographs or footage.
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