Nachthexen - Hail of Bullets

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