The Nazis called them Night Witches because the whooshing noise their plywood and canvas airplanes made reminded the Germans of the sound of a witch’s broomstick. [...] Any German pilot who downed a “witch” was awarded an Iron Cross. [...] These young heroines, all volunteers and most in their teens and early 20s, became legends of World War II but are now largely forgotten. Flying only in the dark, they had no parachutes, guns, radios or radar, only maps and compasses. If hit by tracer bullets, their planes would burn like sheets of paper. bah que louco
Posted on: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 23:37:53 +0000
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