Summer 1941
Instructors start to train
A night bomber squadron

The 588th
Regiment of women
From pilots to mechanics

Claim their role in history
These aviatrixes


Polikarpov biplanes
Providing ground support
Temperature plummeting

To -54
Climbing the dark cloudened sky
Engaged in dog-fights

Up to 18 missions
In one single night


High above Rodina
For the umpteenth raid
Female fighter aces

Send their bombs away
Through the deafening sirens
Struck by heavy flak

Although riddled with bullets
All made it safely back


Shrieking madonnas
Lead spitting banshees
Baptize them in fire

Iron Valkyries
Incoming Nachthexen
Set the ground ablaze

Push the throttle up again
And hear their screams of pain