Also, some of Night Witches are still alive.
http://waralbum.ru/wp-content/upload...90702-nbap.jpg
There were many Night Bomber Air Regiments:
http://www.allaces.ru/cgi-bin/s2.cgi...ruct/p_bap.dat
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This book is about a real man - pilots and navigators of the famous U-2 "Kukuruznik". To control the aircraft initial training may not have had special skills and abilities, yet this is not a fighter or a long-range bomber, but the tasks that had to deal with the crew demanded great courage and full commitment. As one of the veterans: "For the U-2 is treated with derision, but to exploit us mercilessly. The crews of these aircraft departures performed in almost any weather conditions, when no other kind of aircraft could not get off the ground. They flew on bombing, reconnaissance, day and night, landing and dropping scouts, supply surrounded by troops and guerrillas, the evacuation of the wounded, to fly to communication and transportation commanders. The whole spectrum of problems lay on the shoulders of the pilots and navigators of the slow biplane flown at a speed barely exceeding the current speed limit of cars on the highway. Cope with all these complex tasks, successive maybe even in a single day could only be real professionals, pilots and navigator who made their own, largely unjustly neglected, work. Paying tribute to the courage of the female pilots 46-th Guards regiment, we must remember that during the war has created more than a hundred night bomber regiments, among whom only one was female. It is on the shoulders of men such as these twelve men, whose memories are collected in the book bore the brunt of the war on a small airplane, do great things.
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And dont forget, that there were also daylight bomber (Pe-2) female regiment
They were not "night" witches