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588th Night Bomber Squadron is looking for Night Witches.

Posted by mediiic
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Tue 24 Apr 2018
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588th Night Bomber Squadron is looking for Night Witches

Between the World Wars, the Soviets became obsessed with airplanes and flying, and eventually some women became aviators, performing record breaking flights. One of those female aviation pioneers in Soviet Union was Major Marina Raskova. Raskova joined Военно-воздушные силы (Voyenno-Vozdushnye Sily, the Soviet Air Force) in 1931 and was the first woman ever to become a navigator in the service in 1933. Next year she was already an instructor in Zhukovsky Air Academy.

When the war brole out, Raskova convinced Stalin personally to allow the creation of not one but three aviation regiments and on October 8th, 1941 Stalin ordered the formation of the 221st Aviation Corps that consisted solely of women. The 586th Fighter Aviation regiment (equipped with Yakolev Yak-1, -7 and -9 fighters), the 587th Bomber Aviation Regiment (Petlyakov Pe-2 bombers) and 588th Night Bomber Regiment (already obsolete Polikarpov U-2 trainers) flew together nearly 30,000 missions during the war. Of these, this is a game about the women in the 588th, who flew nightly harrasment bombing missions braving night fighters and German flak in planes that were slower than the stall speed of the fighters that hunted them and could carry only 300kg of bombs at a time.

This is the game about the Night Witches.
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