Night Witches

These be the Night Witches. The Russian military, either being sexist as hell or displaying an admirable sense of humor, gave these fine damsels the absolute most rubbish airplanes flown by anybody in all of World War II. We’re talking slow, horribly noisy, terrible handling obsolete biplanes. The Witches didn’t care, they happily took these flying piles of utter dogshit and figured out how to slaughter Germans with them by the metric fuckload. They’d climb up to altitude in the middle of the night (natch) then cut of their engines and glide in over their targets, only turning their engines back on after dropping their bombs, and presumably cackling mirthfully to the satisfying screams of men dying below.