Russia's all-female military regiments

from The Documentary Podcast: Archive 2009 · host BBC World Service

The extraordinary but little-known tale of Russia's three all-female regiments that flew more than 30,000 missions on the Eastern Front. At home they were celebrated as 'Stalin's Falcons' but terrified German troops called them the 'Night Witches'.

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