Nadezhda Popova

World War II ‘Night Witch’ Dies at 91

Born in 1921 in a small coal-mining town in Eastern Ukraine, Nadezhda Popova dreamed of becoming a teacher or a nurse when she was young. Then one day a pilot was blown off course and landed in a field near her school. “We all rushed out of the school and we saw him landing,” she […]

Remembering Nadezhda Popova, A Soviet Combat Pilot and WWII ‘Night Witch’

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