Night Witches flood the sky in silence: In the midst of darkness there is only their wind not heard: Their flirting languid shadows stretch through the night- -then there is their fright: The heart ...

It's our very first Halloween Special! We look at the story of the Nachthexen or Night Witches and their “flying broomsticks”, the venerable Po-2.

She was a navigator with an all-female unit of Soviet aviators who attacked German troops at night, whooshing in wooden planes like witches on broomsticks. A contemporary ink portrait of Polina Gelman ...