Today I Found Out

The Badass WWII Squadron of Female Pilots Known as the Night Witches (2019x295)

Fecha de emisión: Oct 31, 2019

Join War Thunder for free using this link and get a premium t→→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 Follow Simon on social media: https://twitter.com/SimonWhistler https://www.instagram.com/simonwhistler/ Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut: How Do Blue and Green Eyes Exist When Those Pigments Are Not Found in the Human Eye? https://youtu.be/NOeQXTwQaJQ A Genius Among Us https://youtu.be/p450T8cCRtQ In this video: Throughout the 1930s pilots around the world were continually trying to push the limits of anything that had been done before in the air. While the likes of Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart are more familiar names in the Western World, the Soviets had their own equivalents such as Mikhail Gromov who, in 1937 along with his two man crew, managed to break the world distance record for non-stop flight, flying 6,306 miles from Moscow to California via a rather dangerous North Pole route. Hailed as heroes upon their return, Premier Joseph Stalin decided the Soviet Union should follow this up in 1938 by having a group of women pilots attempt to set the distance record for non-stop flight for a female crew. The selected trio, who each already held one or more world records for female aviators, were Polina Osipenko, Valentina Grizodubova, and the woman who would ultimately form the squadron that is the subject of today’s video, Marina Raskova. Want the text version?: https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2019/10/night-witches/ Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Witches http://armedforcesmuseum.com/wwii-night-witches/ http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=202401669 http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/07/night-witches-the-female-fighter-pilots-of-world-war-ii/277779/ http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/flight-of-the-night-witc