Zofia Posmysz’s mugshot after being arrested for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets. She was sent to Auschwitz but survived 2 concentration camps and today is 94 .
Here she is currently. Don’t let her name or her face be forgotten.
for those not in the know, night witches were russian lady bombers who bombed the shit out of german lines in WW2. Thing is though, they had the oldest, noisiest, crappest planes in the entire world. The engines used to conk out halfway through their missions, so they had to climb out on the wings mid flight to restart the props. the planes were also so noisy that to stop germans from hearing them combing and starting up their anti aircraft guns, they’d climb up to a certain height, coast down to german positions, drop their bombs, restart their engines in midair, and get the fuck out of dodge.
their leader flew over 200 missions and was never captured.
how the fuck is this not taught in every single history class ever
pilots (◡‿◡✿)
girl pilots (◕‿◕✿)
girl pilots killing nazis ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* (◕ヮ◕✿)/ *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧
But, remember, women never did anything in history.
I’m reblogging this again. Always reblogging. Always
And the Nazis called them “Night Witches” because you couldn’t fucking hear them. They basically appeared out of the night as if they were flying on brooms and dropped bombs.
Hell yeah
That leader was Yevdokia Bershanskaya and is the only woman so far to be awarded the Order of Suvorov, outstripping other more famous women of ww2 like Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Roza Shanina, and Marina Raskova (who was technically her boss). She eventually died in 1982, but not before 23 members of her unit were awarded Hero of the Soviet Union, 2 Heroes of Russia, and 1 Hero of Kazakhstan (which is important in many ways on its own). Heart attack took her when nothing else, including Axis flak, could.
This is what their planes looked like
It was so shitty it was considered a training plane for rookies only.
Part of it was the fact they WERE women because sexism was still alive in the Soviet Union despite the fact they could serve in combat. Give ‘em shitty planes because what do women know of flying? Save the good planes for the men.
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