By Elayne Jude, Great North News Services
"Nobody knows the exact date when they started calling us 'Night Witches'. We were bombing the German positions every night, so the Germans began saying these are 'Night Witches', because it seemed impossible to kill us or shoot us down."
- Senior Lieutenant Serafima Amosova-Taranenko
In 1942 the Soviet Union was throwing everything into the fight against Germany, including its women.
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