Irina Rakobolskaja

Irina Rakobolskaja. Self: Nattens Häxor. While a physics student at Moscow State University, Irina Vyacheslavovna Rakobolskaya, along with seventeen of her fellow students, joined the Red Army's air force, where she served as chief of staff (and eventual historian of) what became the (all-female) "Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment of the Red Army" where the pilots would fly unarmored and lightly armed biplanes on bombing runs against the Germans, who...