Got a Girl Crush On: Nadezhda Popova, 91, decorated WWII Russian bomber pilot helped chase Nazis back to Berlin with the lethal female bombers called the Night Witches.

MUST-READ obit in today’s NYT: Nadezhda Popova, 91, decorated WWII Russian bomber pilot helped chase Nazis back to Berlin with the lethal female bombers called the Night Witches. Absolutely incredible woman, pilot, heroine. “I sometimes stare into the blackness and close my eyes,” Ms. Popova said in 2010. “I can still imagine myself as a young girl, up there in my little bomber.

And I ask myself, ‘Nadia, how did you do it?’”

Full obit: here.

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