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TIL of the’ Night Witches’, a Russian all female bomber squadron in WW2. The 80-woman group flew 23,000 sorties and received 23 ‘Hero of the Soviet Union’ honors. They earned the name from their technique of shutting the engine off and gliding over their targets to drop bombs silently.

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