Not only did women fly bombers in WW2, but they were called "Night Witches" (Nachthexen in German).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Witches
AWESOME.
@Ulfra_Wolfe Oh, dear, Garth Ennis...well, at least the idea is cool!
@mona Not a fan of 'em, I presume.
@Ulfra_Wolfe No, I confess that I have never quite forgiven Ennis for almost ruining "Hellblazer".
@mona Not familiar.
@Ulfra_Wolfe "Hellblazer" is a comic series, still running I believe, about the iconic figure of John Constantine, a chain-smoking, dirty-mackintosh-clad, sarcastic, self-loathing practitioner of his own special brand of rough-and-ready magic. Created by Alan Moore as a supporting character for "Swamp Thing", Constantine became star of his own comic, "Hellblazer", originated by Jamie Delano in 1988.
https://icosahedron.website/media/MNp2fzwcpsHJTfaVxLI
@Ulfra_Wolfe Delano's "Hellblazer" usually put Constantine up against unfamiliar, sometimes very small-scale "kitchen sink" horrors, but Ennis brought to the comic two things: the festering anti-Catholicism of an Irishman and a deeply adolescent sensibility, so he ramped up the gore and put Constantine up against Satan and Archangel Michael, so the comic became less a magical "X-Files" and more "End of Days". It was pretty dismal, honestly.
@Ulfra_Wolfe @mona *noses* not happy?
@Ulfra_Wolfe Then a writer named Jenkins took over the comic after Ennis was through rubbishing it, but by that time I was rather burned out on comics and in any case couldn't afford to keep up with series any more, so I don't know whether the comic improved much. Some of the early Jenkins material looked like a return to form.
@Ulfra_Wolfe If you're not averse to metal, you might enjoy the song "Night Witches" by the band Sabaton.
Just FYI.
@Ulfra_Wolfe Obligatory Sabaton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7NSUFDHFgg
@Ulfra_Wolfe there is a Stuff You Missed In History Class episode about the Night Witches which is one of my favourites - http://www.missedinhistory.com/podcasts/the-night-witches.htm
If you like the Night Witches, you might also like reading about Ludmila Pavlichenko.
http://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/lyudmila-pavlichenko
@gcupc @Ulfra_Wolfe @staticsafe
Death is a woman, And she is a damn good shot.
@gcupc @Ulfra_Wolfe @staticsafe oh my fucking shit OH MY GOD
@gcupc @staticsafe This read was amazing and thank you so much for sharing!
@Ulfra_Wolfe anything in German sounds cool.
@der_jeff You aren't wrong.
@Ulfra_Wolfe Heavy metal band Sabaton has a great song about the Night Witches. And mostly they would glide (no engines) over German positions on the eastern front in old biplanes and drop (often by hand) bombs. They were amazing.
@silverfox @Ulfra_Wolfe There's also a pen-and-paper RPG about them that works surprisingly well: http://bullypulpitgames.com/games/night-witches/
@Ulfra_Wolfe And there's a tabletop RPG! http://bullypulpitgames.com/games/night-witches/
@Ulfra_Wolfe and the NIght Witches have their own #tabletop #rpg about their exploits : http://bullypulpitgames.com/games/night-witches/
"Although the aircraft were obsolete and slow, the pilots made daring use of their exceptional maneuverability" badass af o_O
@Ulfra_Wolfe Would there be a reference to them into the comics Top 10: The Forty-Niners? The character of Leni "Sky Witch" Muller jumps to my mind as I read that.
@Ulfra_Wolfe They're so awesome the history-channel-loving-dadmetal band saboton did a song about them :Phttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7NSUFDHFgg
A comic book metaseries by Garth Ennis was made on them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlefields_(comics)