[HIGHLIGHTS] They were called "the witches of the night" and they were Adolf Hitler's nightmare.

The 115 women of the Soviet 588th Aviation Regiment in World War II inoculated fear among the Nazis with their suicide attacks. 23 of them were named heroines in the USSR.

They flew wooden airplanes, without radio or parachutes (they said they would rather die than fall into the hands of the Germans) The Germans nicknamed them Nachthexen, the night witches, comparing it to the noise of a flying broom. The women carried out operations at night, always following the same tactic: when they approached the objective, they stopped their engines and glided until they reached the objective.