Flight of the Night Witches
Unaccompanied Horn Solo
“Flight of the Night Witches” was written in honor of the WWII Russian 588th Night Bomber Regiment, an all-female regiment who flew under the cover of darkness in bare bones plywood biplanes dodging bullet and frostbite in the air while confronting skepticism and sexual harassment on the ground. The women would not only fly missions and drop bombs, they would return fire—making the Soviet Union the first nation to officially allow women to engage in combat. The Germans nicknamed them the Nachthexen, or “night witches,” because the whooshing noise their wooden planes made resembled that of a sweeping broom. They were feared and hated so much by the Nazis that any German airman who downed one was automatically awarded the prestigious Iron Cross medal. https://www.history.com/news/meet-the-night-witches-the-daring-female-pilots-who-bombednazis-by-night
Duration: 6:00
Unaccompanied Horn Solo
“Flight of the Night Witches” was written in honor of the WWII Russian 588th Night Bomber Regiment, an all-female regiment who flew under the cover of darkness in bare bones plywood biplanes dodging bullet and frostbite in the air while confronting skepticism and sexual harassment on the ground. The women would not only fly missions and drop bombs, they would return fire—making the Soviet Union the first nation to officially allow women to engage in combat. The Germans nicknamed them the Nachthexen, or “night witches,” because the whooshing noise their wooden planes made resembled that of a sweeping broom. They were feared and hated so much by the Nazis that any German airman who downed one was automatically awarded the prestigious Iron Cross medal. https://www.history.com/news/meet-the-night-witches-the-daring-female-pilots-who-bombednazis-by-night
Duration: 6:00
Unaccompanied Horn Solo
“Flight of the Night Witches” was written in honor of the WWII Russian 588th Night Bomber Regiment, an all-female regiment who flew under the cover of darkness in bare bones plywood biplanes dodging bullet and frostbite in the air while confronting skepticism and sexual harassment on the ground. The women would not only fly missions and drop bombs, they would return fire—making the Soviet Union the first nation to officially allow women to engage in combat. The Germans nicknamed them the Nachthexen, or “night witches,” because the whooshing noise their wooden planes made resembled that of a sweeping broom. They were feared and hated so much by the Nazis that any German airman who downed one was automatically awarded the prestigious Iron Cross medal. https://www.history.com/news/meet-the-night-witches-the-daring-female-pilots-who-bombednazis-by-night
Duration: 6:00