{"id":107076,"date":"2016-04-03T04:13:06","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T04:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/03\/newnewromantic-princeoftherogues\/"},"modified":"2016-04-03T04:13:06","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T04:13:06","slug":"newnewromantic-princeoftherogues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/03\/newnewromantic-princeoftherogues\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

newnewromantic<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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princeoftherogues<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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dork-bending<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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THERE NEEDS TO BE A MOVIE ABOUT THE NIGHT WITCHES DAMNIT.<\/p>\n

BADASS LADIES BOMBING THE SHIT OUTA NAZI\u2019S. WHAT\u2019S NOT TO LOVE??<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

OKAY WE\u201dRE GONNA DO HISTORY KIDs, GET READY FOR THE MOST FACE-MELTINGLY AWESOME WAR STORY YOU\u2019VE EVER HEARD about Irina Sebrova and the 588th Night Bomber Regiment, or Night Witches as the Nazi\u2019s called them because they hated them so much. \u00a0The Night Witches were a group of Russian Aviatrixes during WW2,\u00a0<\/p>\n

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THESE ARE THEM, AND\u00a0<\/p>\n

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THIS IS THEIR BADASS LEADER IRINA SEBROVA.<\/p>\n

now Russia had absolute shit equipment during WW2, and since the Night Witches were all women they were given the shittest of the shit equipment, and by shit, I mean World War One era biplanes that would hardly fly.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Yeah, ^THIS^ is what they had to fly, their job was to fly stealth missions. <\/i>STEALTH. MISSIONS. \u00a0In a super loud bi-plane that was originally meant to be fucking crop-duster. \u00a0Now, in this plane, the navigator sat in front and the pilot sat in back (fairly common for bi-planes). \u00a0Now, since these planes were so deafeningly loud and they were supposed to be flying stealthy night missions, the Night Witches solved that problem, BY TURNING OFF THE GODDAMN PLANE AND GLIDING ON AIR CURRENTS OVER THEIR BOMBING SITE. \u00a0<\/i>That is hardcore as fuck. \u00a0Now, in addition to basically being flying death-traps, these planes had a slight problem, and by slight problem, I mean sometimes the bombs wouldn\u2019t release. \u00a0Now how do you solve that problem? How can you complete your mission if the bombs don\u2019t drop? \u00a0Well, if you\u2019re a Night Witch you do what the navigators would do, AND CLIMB ONTO THE FUCKING WING AND DETACH THE BOMB BY HAND! <\/b>\u00a0You thought turning off the plane was badass? The plane was off while they were climbing onto the wing of a plane made of cloth and wood! Now to make things more badass, the Night Witches weren\u2019t given supplies that were deemed\u00a0\u2018extraneous\u2019 like, oh, a goddamn PARACHUTE. \u00a0Seriously, no parachutes, and Irina Sebrova survived being shot down, TWICE, each time having to dodge German patrols while surviving the Russian winter. \u00a0Now, for an American bomber in World War 2, if he survived 25 missions he was given an honorable discharge and it was considered he had done his duty to the Allies. \u00a0Want to know how many missions Irina Sebrova flew? \u00a0It\u2019s more than 25. \u00a0 Irina Sebrova, Wing Commander of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment flew 92, that\u2019s almost four tours of duty for an American, and those were just day missions!! Guess how many night missions Sebrova flew? \u00a0ONE THOUSAND EIGHT. \u00a0That\u2019s right, she flew 1,008 night missions and 92 day missions, if she was American this would have meant she completed forty-four tours of duty. \u00a0The Night Witches weren\u2019t just badasses, they were heroes with such incredible amounts of courage that they carried out the most insane acts of braveryto protect their homeland and their people.<\/p>\n

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Some more pics of these amazing women.<\/p>\n

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There need to be more<\/i> movies about the Night Witches.<\/p>\n

Because there are movies, just not American <\/i>movies (and would you trust Americans to make a good film about the Soviet Union? I wouldn\u2019t\u2026)<\/p>\n

The two I can think of off the top of my head are Wings<\/a>\u00a0<\/i>and \u041d\u0435\u0431\u0435\u0441\u043d\u044b\u0439 \u0442\u0438\u0445\u043e\u0445\u043e\u0434\u00a0<\/a>(the title doesn\u2019t translate), but I\u2019m pretty sure there are others. I should look into that and report back.<\/p>\n

Also\u2026the second of those two films is a romantic musical comedy<\/a>.\u00a0Just so you know.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

newnewromantic: princeoftherogues: dork-bending: THERE NEEDS TO BE A MOVIE ABOUT THE NIGHT WITCHES DAMNIT. BADASS LADIES BOMBING THE SHIT OUTA NAZI\u2019S. WHAT\u2019S NOT TO LOVE?? OKAY WE\u201dRE GONNA DO HISTORY KIDs, GET READY FOR THE MOST FACE-MELTINGLY AWESOME WAR STORY YOU\u2019VE EVER HEARD about Irina Sebrova and the 588th Night Bomber Regiment, or Night Witches … <\/p>\n

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