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Diary of a 'night witch': the making of a Soviet woman flyer in the Great Patriotic War, 1941-45
Author/Creator
Markwick, Roger D.
Institution
The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Education & Arts, School of Humanities and Social Science
Description
In October 1941, with Hitler's forces at the gates of Moscow, on the initiative of the famous woman navigator Marina Raskova, Stalin personally authorized the formation of the world's first women's air regiments. Women volunteers flocked to be admitted to the three regiments which were eventually formed: fighters, dive bombers and the famous all-female, night bomber regiment - despised as "night witches" by their Nazi enemies. This article uses the diary and letters of a young female navigator in the night bomber regiment, Evgenya Rudneva, to explore the factors which shaped and motivated a generation of young women to take up arms against fascism in defence of their "Motherland".
Relation
14th Biennial Conference of the Australasian Association for European History. Europe's Pasts and Presents: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Biennial Conference of the Australasian Association for European History (Brisbane, Queensland July, 2003) p. 339-353
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http://www.ahpress.com/pastpres.html
Date
2004
Publisher
Australian Humanities Press
Keyword(s)
night witches;  Evgenya Rudneva;  women's air regiments;  Soviet Union;  Great Patriotic War
Resource Type
conference paper
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/35526
Identifier
ISBN:095859628X
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