Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Night_Witches> ?p ?o }
- Night_Witches abstract "\"Night Witches\" is the English translation of Nachthexen, a World War II German nickname (Russian Ночные ведьмы, Nochnye Vedmy) for the female military aviators of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment, known later as the 46th \"Taman\" Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment, of the Soviet Air Forces. The regiment was formed by Colonel Marina Raskova and led by Major Yevdokia Bershanskaya.The regiment flew harassment bombing and precision bombing missions against the German military from 1942 until the end of the war. At its largest, it had 40 two-person crews. It flew over 23,000 sorties and is said to have dropped 3,000 tons of bombs. It was the most highly decorated female unit in the Soviet Air Force, each pilot having flown over 800 missions by the end of the war and twenty-three having been awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union title. Thirty of its members died in combat.The regiment flew in wood-and-canvas Polikarpov Po-2 biplanes, a 1928 design intended for use as training aircraft and for crop-dusting, and to this day the most-produced biplane in aviation history. The planes could carry only six bombs at a time, so multiple missions per night were necessary. Although the aircraft were obsolete and slow, the pilots made daring use of their exceptional maneuverability; they had the advantage of having a maximum speed that was lower than the stall speed of both the Messerschmitt Bf 109 and the Focke-Wulf Fw 190, and as a result, German pilots found them very difficult to shoot down. An attack technique of the night bombers was to idle the engine near the target and glide to the bomb release point, with only wind noise left to reveal their location. German soldiers likened the sound to broomsticks and named the pilots \"Night Witches.\" Due to the weight of the bombs and the low altitude of flight, the pilots carried no parachutes.From June 1942, the 588th Night Bomber Regiment was within the 4th Air Army. In February 1943, the regiment was honored with a reorganization into the 46th Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment and in October 1943 it became the 46th \"Taman\" Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment. \"Taman\" referred to the unit's involvement in two celebrated Soviet victories on the Taman Peninsula during 1943.".
- Night_Witches thumbnail Po-2.jpg?width=300.
- Night_Witches wikiPageExternalLink BhuvasorakulJThesis.pdf.
- Night_Witches wikiPageExternalLink raskov.htm.
- Night_Witches wikiPageExternalLink books?id=HBpSGQAACAAJ.
- Night_Witches wikiPageExternalLink stalins_himmelstuermerinnen.html.
- Night_Witches wikiPageExternalLink Aella.
- Night_Witches wikiPageExternalLink 04212005.html.
- Night_Witches wikiPageExternalLink Nexen.htm.
- Night_Witches wikiPageExternalLink A5849076.
- Night_Witches wikiPageExternalLink 0007962970324ec79c522.
- Night_Witches wikiPageExternalLink nightwitches2.htm.
- Night_Witches wikiPageExternalLink article.asp?id=com_tbfm.
- Night_Witches wikiPageExternalLink femalefaces.html.
- Night_Witches wikiPageExternalLink nitewtch.html.
- Night_Witches wikiPageExternalLink 05-155_eng.pdf.
- Night_Witches wikiPageID "4507110".
- Night_Witches wikiPageLength "12614".
- Night_Witches wikiPageOutDegree "64".
- Night_Witches wikiPageRevisionID "708364385".
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink 4th_Air_Army.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Aircrew.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Alison_Klayman.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Anna_Friel.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_the_Caucasus.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Battlefields_(comics).
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Bazooka.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Boris_Yeltsin.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Category:All-female_military_units_and_formations.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Category:Female_aviators.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Category:Military_history_of_the_Soviet_Union_during_World_War_II.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Category:Regiments_of_the_Soviet_Air_Forces.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Category:Ukrainian_women_of_World_War_II.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Category:Women_in_the_Russian_and_Soviet_military.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Charles_Carpenter_(lieutenant_colonel).
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Dive_bomber.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Focke-Wulf_Fw_190.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Garth_Ennis.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink German_language.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Gregory_Allen_Howard.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Guadalcanal_Campaign.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Hail_of_Bullets.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Harassing_fire.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Harry_Turtledove.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Hero_of_the_Soviet_Union.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Heroes_(Sabaton_album).
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Irina_Sebrova.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Jason_Morningstar.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Johnny_Red.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Los_Angeles_Times.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Malcolm_McDowell.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Marina_Raskova.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Messerschmitt_Bf_109.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Nadezhda_Popova.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Natalya_Meklin.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Night_bomber.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Piper_J-3_Cub.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Polikarpov_Po-2.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Polina_Gelman.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Precision_bombing.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Role-playing_game.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Rufina_Gasheva.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Russian_language.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Sabaton_(band).
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Sophie_Marceau.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Soviet_Air_Forces.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Stall_(fluid_mechanics).
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Taman_Peninsula.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink The_New_York_Times_Magazine.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Vera_Belik.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Washing_Machine_Charlie.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Wehrmacht.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink World_War_II.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Worldwar_series.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Yakovlev_Yak-1.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Yevdokia_Bershanskaya.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink Yevgeniya_Rudneva.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink File:Evgeniya_Rudneva.jpg.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink File:Nadezhda_Popova.jpg.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLink File:Po-2.jpg.
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLinkText "''Nochnye Vedmy''".
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLinkText "46th Guards Night Bombing Regiment".
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLinkText "46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment".
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLinkText "46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Regiment".
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLinkText "588th "Night Witches" Night Bomber Regiment".
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLinkText "588th Night Bomber Regiment".
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLinkText "588th".
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLinkText "Night Witches".
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLinkText "Soviet 588th Night Bomber Regiment".
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLinkText "The 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment".
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLinkText "The Night Witches".
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLinkText "female air regiments".
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLinkText "harassing German ground forces".
- Night_Witches wikiPageWikiLinkText "women-only Soviet bomber regiment".
- Night_Witches wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:.
- Night_Witches wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Cite_book.
- Night_Witches wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Night_Witches subject Category:All-female_military_units_and_formations.
- Night_Witches subject Category:Female_aviators.
- Night_Witches subject Category:Military_history_of_the_Soviet_Union_during_World_War_II.