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.
A comic book metaseries by Garth Ennis was made on them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlefields_(comics)
@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 Oh, dear, Garth Ennis...well, at least the idea is cool!