That’s the kind of commander you want to serve under. The one who’s going to give a damn if you didn’t come home and find you no matter how long it takes
Это не совсем командир. Я даже не знаю как обьяснить англоговорящим кто это. Скажем так: это заместитель командира по воспитательной и политической работе, он не отдает боевые команды, он следит за моральным состоянием духа воинов и что б они придерживались линии партии. Часто они сами летали и нередко в качестве ведомых. Но были и такие кто не умел пилотировать самолет.
He was made to rule the waves across the seven seas To lead the war machine To rule the waves and lead the Kriegsmarine The terror of the seas The Bismarck and the Kriegsmarine
I've been binge watching this channel for 2 days, subscribed because the haunted stove told me to. Pleasantly confused/surprised by the band, the music was awesome. Reminds me of the time a few months ago when I rewatched "Diggy Diggy Hole" for the 10th or 12th time, found a rock version of it after that, and suddenly got introduced to Alestorm because of a comment leading me to them. Fun times.
>Be hans >be flying your BF-109 on patrol >spot 3 planes not far in the distance >approach them from the side >are those Bi-planes? confusion.blitz >get into range >open fire >the planes turn so quickly you have trouble keeping an eye on them >they are behind you now ohgott.furcht >get hit >you're leaking fuel >pull off >glance at enemy pilot >think 'the guy has to be some form of ace' >its a woman >she's laughing at you >return to airfield >when asked what happened tell them you got hit by a Yak >never going to tell fritz what happened that night
@Opecuted I would argue they even be missing a sidearm, althought the high propagand the look like a B squad (even C), using the oldest model available through all the war and being handed used uniforms
@@flyer_452official9 i heard sabaton from a meme about 4-5 years ago. Been a big for a long time but then grew apart from it. This video gave me flashbacks to the better days
“Hans? Did you hear that? Where those... DIE NACHTHEXEN?!” “Nein, kamerad. I’m pretty sure that’s Yarnhub and Sabaton making an awesome video.” “Ah. Sehr gut.”
The PO 2 was a training aircraft that was used in flying clubs before the war. From here in Russia there were many trained pilots who know how to fly this plane well. There were quite a few women among them. When the second world war began, women volunteered for the front. They might have been nurses or radio operators, but they could fly well and they formed a separate night bombing regiment, No. 588. They flew on PO 2 , it had a very strong frame made of aviation plywood and was covered with a special fabric. The bullets went right through him, and he flew on. The aircraft had dual controls, which also contributed to its survivability. In fact, the plane "Night witches" was what is now called a drone. According to its characteristics, it was a manned drone that delivered bombs to the exact address in complete silence, and disappeared into the night sky. Admirable is the fact that these planes were flown by young girls who were 17-25 years old. During the night, they made 5-6 sorties to the near rear of the enemy. They took a lot of risks, their flying skills helped them in the fight against the fascist anti-aircraft gunners.
Think one of reasons women got PO 2 was because standard bomber, PE 2, required insane muscle strength to control. Even male pilots often struggled to get it out of bombing dive.
having young women might also have to be because of the low carry weight of the plane, plus not wasting time on older people that already do other stuff. Moreover soviet aviation was in its infancy so finding "old" women aviators could have been impossible, even if desired
@@nahuelleandroarroyo true, but the main reason was it was the young women whom were most eager. I suppose older ones tended to be married, have children - and thus, avoided these risks. IF they did participated, so in the field hospitals and such.
I had no clue about these women, This is why I love channels like this, they constantly make videos about topics many people don’t know about. The Animation Gets better every time, Thank you for these videos. I remember when there was 2d Animations.
What if told you there was a German shepherd in Red Army who was awarded for his service in a bomb defusal squad and after the war proceeded to make a successful movie career?
Imagine your babushka telling you this story but you don't believe it then you find this video and find out that she was one of them. @Yarnhub keep up the good work, you are by far the best of the best in making animated history videos to me and all the loyal viewers of this channel.
As a sabaton fan and military history enthusiast.let me tell you: this video is very awesome and fucking epic also emotional. So long i expected a oficial video of this song in particular. This video in particular was very moving/touching. :'D \m/ lml /,,/ and never the less the fact that yarnhub and sabaton colaborate eachother to create this great video. Its fantastic. :D keep the great stuff coming.😎👍😎👌
I love the small inclusion of 5:53 It's not just her being angry Shooting with small arms fire was common practice in WWI before the invention of propeller synced machine guns So being in a WWI plane, it is quite accurate as to how one would fight off another plane
not to mention that they never really put machineguns behind the navigators, nor would they put parachutes on. Why? Well, more bombs of course! that weight taken up by a gun or silk could be used to carry more bombs to punish the Germans for their invasion!
Well that anger is certainly well shown. She wanted vengeance. I don't know how effective a handgun would be against a fighter, but hey, I'm no expert.
I knew about the Knight Witches but I never knew that their Commissar had searched for the place where each of her pilots were shot down and killed, that is true comradeship and the female pilots of the Night Witches more than earned their place with the bravest of the brave, may they never be forgotten.
She did that for several reasons. 1. missing pilot of downed plane was treated as MIA, probably - captured or even defected. Her girls refused to wear the parachutes, so the crash site was enough to confirm heroical KIA instead of MIA. Finding these sites she removed any, even very pale spots of suspicions from their names. 2. she was kinda "adopting mother" for them, and she respected the memories of her "step-daughters"
@@Sergei_Agarkoff The problem with bombing missions in ww1 era aircraft is that they would be flying so low that by the time you were able to climb out of the cockpit, pull the ripcord and allow the parachute to inflate and slow you down to a reasonable speed, you would already have hit the ground. Parachutes weren't really much help and just got in the way.
These girls hadn't just to put up with the fire of there enemies and the boorish taunts of there comrades, but the underestimation of there superiors, but then they just went ahead and proved their value to saving their country. For this they should always be remembered, thank you Yarnhub for doing so.
“Boorish taunts of their comrades and and underestimation of their superiors” exist only in your head. First of all “Night Witches” aka 558th night bombers special Reg were all female Reg (including technics and mechanics) throughout the whole war, secondly it was awarded titles “Guard” , Red Banner and order of Suvorov, which means acknowledgement that: 1.they belong to elite part of the forces 2.their contributions to defense of the country is immense 3. their tactic skills are outstanding!! Have a nice day!
@@maxspirin3945 Thank you for your concern of how my day was but maybe listen to the video and hear some of the things stated in it that I just said above, but well maybe you were there and know better? All I was trying to do was provide people who done so much with the complement they deserve and I wasn't there, so what else would I say.
@@johnryder1713 Вы понимаете, что спорите с человеком, чьи родители или дедушка с бабушкой были непосредственными участниками событий, о которых вы только что узнали из коротенького мультфильма?
It's a shame that some companies like EA would disrespect females so much in BF5 as to creative robotic arm fake stories to represent women. I would love to play as a female russian tank commander or one of these brave pilots! Could be a very exciting and great game, while paying proper tribute to female efforts in the war without insulting men by rewriting history.
Don't forget about the snipers, recon units, AA units, field medics... But since most of them who experienced heavy battles were Soviet, and EA decided not to include USSR campaign at all, it's not a big surprise there's not much stories left. And EA was too lazy to dig into real French/Italian/Polish/etc. resistance/guerilla operations where women where actually involved, or considered them not to be epic enough... assigning the feat of a group of saboteurs to a fictional woman instead.
There are so many heroic stories about women in WW2, but sadly, we didn't get to experience those stories by ourselves due to bad marketing and the company giving up on the game
Good. For me as the son and grandson of soldiers it would hurt when my grandfather would tell me.of his brothers in arms with no know grave, forever missing in action.
And part of why Yevdokia Rachkevich retraced the 588th's path from the war and searched for every crash-site, was so that her girls could have a proper burial and the recognition they deserved. You see, in the Soviet Union at that time, unless your corpse was found, if you were Missing In Action you were considered a Deserter, and if you were captured by the Germans and became a POW, you were considered a Nazi Collaborator unless/until proven Innocent. Before Lieutenant-Colonel Rachkevich found their crash-sites and resting-places, those girls weren't seen as the heroes that they truly were.
At first the background music sent the familiarity senses tingling, then you said "Undetected, Unexpected, Stealth Perfected." This really got my attention. Then you mad lads actually did it.
I am a history teacher and enthusiast and have never heard of your channel, I have just seen this video live on the sabaton channel and it lead me to your channel, i have already watched 3 videos here and I love it, i wish i knew about your channel since the beginning, absolute respect and tha k you to Sabaton for giving you this publicity a d boost, keep doing amazing work Sidenote, i am from South Africa and i have not yet seen if you have videos from south african history, i specifically think of the Anglo Boer war and Anglo Zulu war i am not sure yet about your exact style but i would love to some videos about that or about South African contingents in the world wars
@@Ling__Ling__ Indeed, it is one of my favourite sabaton songs (along with caroleans prayer) that is why I am hoping for a crossover about the zulu war maybe even the heroics at the battle of Rorke's drift with the song in the same style as night witches, you can also head to the sabaton history channel i have some replies to comments on the episode about Rorke's drift where some extra information is added, as I am a history teacher in SA you can probably already asume but that is in the syllabus so I do know quite a lot about that war
More fun facts about the Po-2 they flew, the low wing loading of a bi-plane (bi-planes had been outdated for 5-8 years by that point) meant it could glide without engine power for much longer than monoplanes like Yaks or MiGs and the silent approach from above proved useful in part because of this. A secondary factor was something I've read but I can't find any concrete evidence for right now (so consider it as plausible), German AA guns had some target lead detection which was fairly early technology at the time and the Po-2 was too slow for it to track properly, contributing to the bombing success. Canvas planes were also in general remarkably resilient to small punctures so long as those did not hit the pilot or required control surface.
The too slow for AA also happened in the story of K.M.S Bismarck where she tried to shoot down the Bi-planes (swordfishes) and she didnt shoot down any because the planes were too slow for the Auto Aiming AA
@@TheAviationGuyID True. This also applies to the "Rosie the Rocketeer", an american grasshopper recon aircraft fitted with bazookas on its wings. The fact that it also had low speed meant that german AA fire could not stop it, allowing the plane to take out german panzers from above using its bazookas.
@@vinceking7878 The only thing they could fire manually was the light AAA. Even if the light AA hits it wouldnt do anything as the bullets would just pass through the swordfishes
@@TheAviationGuyID I know nobody cares but apparently the Bismarck was considered a He rather than a she by the Kreigsmarine. (They thought the ship was so mighty that it deserved a male pronoun)
That last crap Battlefield game absolutely should have covered these women and the Soviet female snipers instead of making up the garbage they did. It is an absolute insult to these women warriors that they were not depicted.
In April of 2019,as a birthday present to myself,I was one of the passengers of an operational Po-2 planes(12 of them are left,6 of them are operational). Yes,it is a slow,but calm plane,easily controllable. I did remember, that the first instruction to step inside the cockpit was, 'DO NOT STEP ON THE WING, it might break' :) The second was 'MIND YOUR HEAD'...I hit the center part of the top wings,the maintenance crew and the pilot gave me a little smile...the designer of the plane already thought about idiots like me,so he put a strengthening element into the top wings,at the center :D So neither me nor the plane was hurt too much.
Please note that women's clothes were not a part of ostracizm by army command, it was simply unavailable until, I believe, 1944. Also later this reg went *all* women, even technicians were female. Also, in 1943 it became 46th guard night bombing Taman of Red Banner and Lenin orders regiment. Red Banner order and Lenin order are awards they received for their service, while Taman is just an honorary title I believe
Mr Yarnhub Sir, I am truly grateful to you for posting such quality videos that shed more light on the Soviet fight against the Nazis. I grew up to history books teaching us that the US, and to a lesser extent UK, won WW2. It was only much later while researching on the internet I learnt the real fight was on the Eastern Front where 8/10 Nazis were accounted for by the Soviets. Thank you again and keep up the good work.
What's cooler than telling a true story? Telling it in rock music! To think that they also need to be close on the front lines with their outdated planes, turn off their engines while doing their bombing runs, and fly at night is absolutely amazing. This is a part of forgotten history that should known. BTW, I like so much sabaton that I keep "the last stand" as my ring tone. Great video as always!
What I learned here that i didn't get form Sabaton is that these weren't even the best ones, there were the least skilled of all of the Night Witches. Now I want to know how successful the other groups were.
I've found out about Sabaton thanks to Yarnhub's video about Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler. Year later, Yarnhub makes a collaboration without Sabaton about my favourite song. Seriously a fantastic channel
When I saw that 'S' on the propeller I knew it was Sabaton. I however didn't know we would get a properly done video out of this. Loved how respectful it was. o7
Спасибо за это видео! Я плакал, когда смотрел его. Это слезы гордости, радости и скорби. Спасибо, что рассказываете не только о героях со стороны США, Великобритании или Канады, но и о героях Советского Союза
WW1 planes in WW2 have the best stories about them, no exceptions. The night witches, attacking the Bismarck and even the tale of Bazooka Charlie, it makes you wonder if even in the current war they have a place.
This is literally my dream coming true. After I've first read about them, I stumbled upon Sabaton song and was lying in bed half asleep listening to it. This is almost exactly a clip I dreamed of, except the explosions aren't sinced with drums Thank you.
I'm an amateur military historian focused on the Korean War. This video raised the hairs on the back of my neck. Wow...mix of Yarnhub and Sabaton sounds like a perfect October 'Witches' brew. VERY well done~~~
Gotta say, this is probably my favorite video of you guys' so far; the collab with Sabaton was perfect. Hearing the subtle and familiar riffs of the song while your narrating, and seeing Sabaton's signature S on the plane propellers really set the mood. On a more somber note, you guys did a good job on the animation all around; in particular, you nailed the animation and expressions of Yevdokia Rachkevich. She genuinely looks upset after crossing off the names, and her animation of her searching for the girls' bodies after the war really made you feel for her. Call me a sap if you want, but I think more of these stories need to be told; I'm using the Night Witches in a book I plan on writing, and I'm hoping I can do them justice.
Fav band partners with one of my fav history channels what could be better From a slight cameo in the vid with Lawrence of Arabia ( Joakim was at the grave ) to this Here is the vid I’m referring to btw th-cam.com/video/CMsd3NOmupw/w-d-xo.html
"At her signal, the pilot would cut the engines and swoop in slowly, silently. Dropping their bombs, dealing death from above. Unexpected. Undetected. Stealth perfected." 2:41 legitimately gives me goose bumps, connecting that to the songs' lyrics is just so cool.
I NEED MORE UPLOADS!!!!! i've bingewatched your entire channel within a single day. now i'm scared to the bone cuz i have to go back to the infographics show and they are so BAD, they mess up everything and invent things... was so glad to have found this channel here... v_v pls, work more! :O if you ever run out of topics, just check the historical stuff of the infographics show and upload correctified versions, you guys are covering the same topics but HERE it's done soooo much better! =')
Nice heart-touching final point with sixths member - lady-member - of "Sabaton" putting her sunglasses on, like she put her protective airman glasses before... I'm almost 50, but could not hold my tears. One remark: in bombing scenes the engines are running, while IRL these Metal Ladies re-started the engines after they passed the bombardment site. The bombardments were committed with the engines turned off.
Why do half of your videos make me tear up? I am 52 and I drove Tanks in the US ARMY. Fortunately, all I ever fought was boredom. My hat goes off to those of all nations who never made it home.
I'm beyond overjoyed to see *sabaton* and *yarnhub* working together! I was happy to see you include a sabaton reference over on your Lawrence of Arabia video. Hopefully we see more collaborations between you guys!
That Sabaton collab was wild. I love this channel; it's incredibly entertaining and the quality of the animation is very high and the stories behind the videos are also incredibly interesting. Thanks for another great vid!
The Night Witches The Brave women who fear of Nothing Being Brave women flying high and wonderful dedication done by ( YarnHub + Sabaton ) Awesome video done by Them Yarn Hub ❤️ + Sabaton ❤️ Deadly combination 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Dedicated song 🎵🎶🎵🎶 to the Night Witches 🔥👍👍👍👍
I actually bursted in tears at the ending of the video. Proud and sad at the same time for all those brave women that never came back home. Excelent video.
![Night Witches - Female Soviet Pilots - Sabaton History 050 [Official]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/mKd2_GGtNRw/mqdefault.jpg)
Disney: Endgame is the most ambitious crossover in history
Yarn Hub: hold my sabatons!
Nintendo: Smash Bros is the biggest crossover war in the entire universe!
Night Witches: Hold our wings.
LOL
Hell yeah
I mean it worked........
Love
Wing commanders:
Evgenia Zhigulenko
Ekaterina Oleynik
Ekaterina Piskareva
Irina Sebrova
Claudia Serebryakova
Natalya Meklin
Nina Raspopova
Nina Ulyanenko
Raisa Aronova
Raisa Yushina
Tatyana Makarova
Pilots:
Augustina Artemyeva
Anna Amosova
Anna Vysotskaya
Anna Dudina
Anna Malakhova
Anna Putina
Valentina Perepecha
Valentina Polunina
Evgenia Krutova
Evgenia Popova
Elizabeth Kazberuk
Zoya Solovyova
Irina Kuznetsova
Kaleria Rylskaya
Claudia Ryzhkova
Lilia Tormosina
Lyubov Mishchenko
Lyudmila Gorbacheva
Lyudmila Klopkova (Yakovleva)
Lyudmila Kornienko
Maria Akilina
Maria Nikitina
Maria Rukavitsina
Maria Sergeevna
Mira Paromova
Nadezhda Yezhova
Nadezhda Troparevskaya
Nina Altsybeeva
Nina Bekarevich
Panna Prokopieva
Praskovya Belkina
Praskovya Prasolova
Sophia Kokosh
Sophia Rogova
Taisiya Volodina
Taisiya Fokina
Tatyana Osokina
Julia Pashkova
Regiment Navigators:
Evgenia Rudneva
Laura Rozanova
Sofya Burzaeva
Squadron Navigator:
Alexandra Akimova
Vera Tarasova
Evdokia Pasko
Ekaterina Ryabova
Lidia Svistunova
Olga Klyueva
Rufina Gasheva
Tatyana Sumarokova
Link Navigator
Vera Belik
Ekaterina Timchenko
Larisa Radchikova
Galina Dokutovich
Nina Reutskaya
Olga Yakovleva
Pauline Gelman
Olga Golubeva
Navigators:
Alexandra Popova
Anastasia Penchuk
Anastasia Tsuranova
Anna Volosyuk
Anna Bondareva
Anna Petrova
Antonina Pavlova
Antonina Rozova
Antonina Frolova
Valentina Luchinkina
Valentina Pustovoitenko
Vera Khurtina
Galina Bespalova
Evgenia Glamazdina
Evgenia Pavlova
Evgenia Sukhorukova
Ekaterina Mesnyankina (Shipova)
Elena Nikitina
Elena Salikova
Zinaida Petrova
Irina Glatman
Irina Kashirina
Claudia Startseva
Ksenia Chekhovich
Lydia Golubova
Lidia Lavrentieva
Lidia Lemesheva
Lidia Loshmanova
Lydia Tselovalnikova
Liliya Zhdanova
Lyubov Mashchenko
Lyubov Shevchenko
Maria Vinogradova
Mary Avidzba
Nadezhda Komogortseva
Nadezhda Studilina
Nina Danilova
Polina Petkileva
Polina Ulyanova
Sophia Vodyanik
Tatyana Kostina
Tatyana Maslennikova
And most girls aged 17 to 22 years. could be younger, many teens lied about their age during the war to get to the front line
Damn that was long
Wikipedia Copy paste?
Ilikepoop666 good effort
Poor gear, rear line trainers, and enough guts to tell the men, hold our beer, consider the target bombed.
Respect!
Animated Joakim slapping his knee is what makes 2020 bearable.
I agree
🤣😂💀
I saw that and was like "True Sabato levels"
Still isny bearable
@@zachowonah yes my favorite band
*"Sabato"*
The commander who searched for each of her fallen girl's. Right in the feels...
That’s the kind of commander you want to serve under. The one who’s going to give a damn if you didn’t come home and find you no matter how long it takes
Ngl, it made me tear up
Yeah, suddenly after reading this comment i was attack by ninja cutting onion
Это не совсем командир. Я даже не знаю как обьяснить англоговорящим кто это.
Скажем так: это заместитель командира по воспитательной и политической работе, он не отдает боевые команды, он следит за моральным состоянием духа воинов и что б они придерживались линии партии. Часто они сами летали и нередко в качестве ведомых. Но были и такие кто не умел пилотировать самолет.
не нужно им этого объяснять. Всё равно поймут неправильно
The yarnhub fans who have never heard of sabaton must be confused as heck
yes, lol.
well to be fair, if you love history you'll come across sabaton in just a matter of time.
Sabaton: I am inevitable.
@@owarida6241 yeah
@@owarida6241 TOOK FOUR YEARS IT DID!!!
History: *Exists*
Sabaton: There is a music of that
Kek
He was made to rule the waves across the seven seas
To lead the war machine
To rule the waves and lead the Kriegsmarine
The terror of the seas
The Bismarck and the Kriegsmarine
Thank you, you made me laugh aloud
Into the motherland through the Nazi riech
@@2KOOLURATOOLGaming thank you for reading it.
Me: *Sees S on propeller, that looks like Sabaton, cant be*
Yarnhub: *Sabaton and Yarnhub present*
ME: *BOOIII !!!!*
I've been binge watching this channel for 2 days, subscribed because the haunted stove told me to. Pleasantly confused/surprised by the band, the music was awesome. Reminds me of the time a few months ago when I rewatched "Diggy Diggy Hole" for the 10th or 12th time, found a rock version of it after that, and suddenly got introduced to Alestorm because of a comment leading me to them. Fun times.
@@johns9652 Love the yogscast. Sabaton has alot of great history songs
@@johns9652 *teases you in spanish*
@@jaytee5621 Que?
@@johns9652
la estufa es española
German guard: Must've been the wind..
Do you get to the cloud district very often?
Yea Hanz must be the wind
...why do I hear Sabaton?
its just my imagination
@@danmen5258 Why are there explosions?
>Be hans
>be flying your BF-109 on patrol
>spot 3 planes not far in the distance
>approach them from the side
>are those Bi-planes?
confusion.blitz
>get into range
>open fire
>the planes turn so quickly you have trouble keeping an eye on them
>they are behind you now
ohgott.furcht
>get hit
>you're leaking fuel
>pull off
>glance at enemy pilot
>think 'the guy has to be some form of ace'
>its a woman
>she's laughing at you
>return to airfield
>when asked what happened tell them you got hit by a Yak
>never going to tell fritz what happened that night
The PO2 does not have forward facing machine guns, at most one rear facing 7.62mm.
You can't be engaged by a PO2 from it's front
@@nahuelleandroarroyo don't ruin the moment please.
@Opecuted I would argue they even be missing a sidearm, althought the high propagand the look like a B squad (even C), using the oldest model available through all the war and being handed used uniforms
@@nahuelleandroarroyo they were usually issued the Nagant revolvers which let's be honest was a very outdated and obsolete gun
*You have hole in your left wing*
Was not expecting a collab between YarnHub and Sabaton. Definitely was not disappointed.
A surprise to be sure but a welcome one
@@apexbrothers5054 Agreed.
And there’s more just check out sabaton on yt
You aren't the only one who wasn't disappointed. This was so good
I was so confused
WHY IS THIS CHANNEL SO UNDERRATED
Not for long
Even with 170k, they are still underrated. This channel needs more attention.
@@graphited2419 agreed, was anyone around when simple history was starting out? To compare how fast they grew side by side
Summoned The Sabaton Fans! BEAT THE DRUMS!
Tranquilos todo toma su tiempo
Imagine people who doesn't know about sabaton watching this video. They get a fun education video and a metal music.
That's how i got into Sabaton
Educational metal music you mean?
@@flyer_452official9 i heard sabaton from a meme about 4-5 years ago. Been a big for a long time but then grew apart from it. This video gave me flashbacks to the better days
I’ve heard about sabaton for years but never really cared until I watched great war
I'm not imagining it. They ruined it IMO. I'm a musician and that was awful.
Yarnhub promised something Unexpected coming this week, and it really was "Unexpected, Undetected" video :D
(REALLY, EPIC VIDEO!)
Nice pfp you got there
Also uea it was a very epic video
@@dinkydstryr1959
Thank You...
You also have a nice pfp there ;)
Glory to Greatest Country!
Glory To Arstotzka
“Hans? Did you hear that? Where those... DIE NACHTHEXEN?!”
“Nein, kamerad. I’m pretty sure that’s Yarnhub and Sabaton making an awesome video.”
“Ah. Sehr gut.”
perfection
@Huang Jianhao yesh
@Huang Jianhao yesh yesh
@Huang Jianhao yesh yesh yesh
@Huang Jianhao Yesh yesh yesh yesh
The PO 2 was a training aircraft that was used in flying clubs before the war. From here in Russia there were many trained pilots who know how to fly this plane well. There were quite a few women among them. When the second world war began, women volunteered for the front. They might have been nurses or radio operators, but they could fly well and they formed a separate night bombing regiment, No. 588. They flew on PO 2 , it had a very strong frame made of aviation plywood and was covered with a special fabric. The bullets went right through him, and he flew on. The aircraft had dual controls, which also contributed to its survivability. In fact, the plane "Night witches" was what is now called a drone. According to its characteristics, it was a manned drone that delivered bombs to the exact address in complete silence, and disappeared into the night sky. Admirable is the fact that these planes were flown by young girls who were 17-25 years old. During the night, they made 5-6 sorties to the near rear of the enemy. They took a lot of risks, their flying skills helped them in the fight against the fascist anti-aircraft gunners.
Think one of reasons women got PO 2 was because standard bomber, PE 2, required insane muscle strength to control. Even male pilots often struggled to get it out of bombing dive.
amazingly young, they're like real-life anime girl basically
having young women might also have to be because of the low carry weight of the plane, plus not wasting time on older people that already do other stuff. Moreover soviet aviation was in its infancy so finding "old" women aviators could have been impossible, even if desired
@@ceu160193 yet there were female Pe2 pilots too. Not many, but there were.
@@nahuelleandroarroyo true, but the main reason was it was the young women whom were most eager. I suppose older ones tended to be married, have children - and thus, avoided these risks. IF they did participated, so in the field hospitals and such.
You know you’ve been cemented in history if Sabaton made a song about you.
I had no clue about these women, This is why I love channels like this, they constantly make videos about topics many people don’t know about.
The Animation Gets better every time, Thank you for these videos. I remember when there was 2d Animations.
What if told you there was a German shepherd in Red Army who was awarded for his service in a bomb defusal squad and after the war proceeded to make a successful movie career?
2d animations...yeah i remember the stricken b17 bomber spared by a german fighter plane(i forgot already)
@Top2bottom gaming Same here. I’ve been subscribed to this channel when they only had three to four videos out
Yuan Yuan yeah, I remember when that was released
Олег Козлов I would be suprised.
Russian women: beautiful yet deadly
Proven in Girls Und Panzer
@@dakufaust Which is based on a true story
@Gabriel Stephens ??? No its not???
@@dakufaust I think he is referring to der film
@Lift-o Califto I guess you like men then
Narrator mentions Unexpected, Undetected, Stealth Perfected line once, Me: ♪"UNDETECTED! UNEXPECTED! WINGS OF GLORY! TELL THE STORY! AVIATIATION, DEVIATION! UNDETECTED! STEALTH PERFECTED!"♪
Imagine your babushka telling you this story but you don't believe it then you find this video and find out that she was one of them.
@Yarnhub keep up the good work, you are by far the best of the best in making animated history videos to me and all the loyal viewers of this channel.
Why you dont believe your babuska. Sexist much?
As a sabaton fan and military history enthusiast.let me tell you: this video is very awesome and fucking epic also emotional. So long i expected a oficial video of this song in particular. This video in particular was very moving/touching. :'D \m/ lml /,,/ and never the less the fact that yarnhub and sabaton colaborate eachother to create this great video. Its fantastic. :D keep the great stuff coming.😎👍😎👌
Same dude
Agreed same
Same
:P thx
Same
"Sabaton and Yarn Hub Presents..."
The hairs on my body stood up
“Out of date” The PO-2 was not out of date, just an experimental VTOL training aircraft
Well the PO-2 is 2-OP
@@theunknownwarrior632 nice
@@theunknownwarrior632 anti-helicopter po-2, plz nerf
Yeah or STOL if you are accurate
Yeah it is true but still it it kinda funny not like funny funny just funny in military stuff
I love the small inclusion of 5:53
It's not just her being angry
Shooting with small arms fire was common practice in WWI before the invention of propeller synced machine guns
So being in a WWI plane, it is quite accurate as to how one would fight off another plane
not to mention that they never really put machineguns behind the navigators, nor would they put parachutes on. Why? Well, more bombs of course! that weight taken up by a gun or silk could be used to carry more bombs to punish the Germans for their invasion!
Well that anger is certainly well shown. She wanted vengeance. I don't know how effective a handgun would be against a fighter, but hey, I'm no expert.
Some "estupidos" found this tragic moment just laughable: "stupid sqwo tried to fight the fighter-plane with pistol! ha-ha-ha"
F...ng idiots!
I knew about the Knight Witches but I never knew that their Commissar had searched for the place where each of her pilots were shot down and killed, that is true comradeship and the female pilots of the Night Witches more than earned their place with the bravest of the brave, may they never be forgotten.
She did that for several reasons.
1. missing pilot of downed plane was treated as MIA, probably - captured or even defected. Her girls refused to wear the parachutes, so the crash site was enough to confirm heroical KIA instead of MIA. Finding these sites she removed any, even very pale spots of suspicions from their names.
2. she was kinda "adopting mother" for them, and she respected the memories of her "step-daughters"
@@Sergei_Agarkoff The problem with bombing missions in ww1 era aircraft is that they would be flying so low that by the time you were able to climb out of the cockpit, pull the ripcord and allow the parachute to inflate and slow you down to a reasonable speed, you would already have hit the ground. Parachutes weren't really much help and just got in the way.
These girls hadn't just to put up with the fire of there enemies and the boorish taunts of there comrades, but the underestimation of there superiors, but then they just went ahead and proved their value to saving their country. For this they should always be remembered, thank you Yarnhub for doing so.
“Boorish taunts of their comrades and and underestimation of their superiors” exist only in your head.
First of all “Night Witches” aka 558th night bombers special Reg were all female Reg (including technics and mechanics) throughout the whole war, secondly it was awarded titles “Guard” , Red Banner and order of Suvorov, which means acknowledgement that: 1.they belong to elite part of the forces 2.their contributions to defense of the country is immense 3. their tactic skills are outstanding!! Have a nice day!
@@maxspirin3945 Thank you for your concern of how my day was but maybe listen to the video and hear some of the things stated in it that I just said above, but well maybe you were there and know better? All I was trying to do was provide people who done so much with the complement they deserve and I wasn't there, so what else would I say.
Those women had bigger balls then some guys I know
@@matthewcaughey8898 you can say that again
@@johnryder1713 Вы понимаете, что спорите с человеком, чьи родители или дедушка с бабушкой были непосредственными участниками событий, о которых вы только что узнали из коротенького мультфильма?
sabaton: releases night witches
yarnhub: IT'S TIME
Greatest crossover of history, hope we can see more
brother
@@doctordoc2351 brother
This is a surprise
I never expect Sabaton in Yarnhub
So that's why the S on the prop is familliar.
Now i love this channel
Yes, the actual Russian planes had a Soviet Star.
It's a shame that some companies like EA would disrespect females so much in BF5 as to creative robotic arm fake stories to represent women. I would love to play as a female russian tank commander or one of these brave pilots! Could be a very exciting and great game, while paying proper tribute to female efforts in the war without insulting men by rewriting history.
Don't forget about the snipers, recon units, AA units, field medics... But since most of them who experienced heavy battles were Soviet, and EA decided not to include USSR campaign at all, it's not a big surprise there's not much stories left. And EA was too lazy to dig into real French/Italian/Polish/etc. resistance/guerilla operations where women where actually involved, or considered them not to be epic enough... assigning the feat of a group of saboteurs to a fictional woman instead.
@@evilbabai7083 and dont forget the
US Women Airforce Service Pilots, while not a front line unit. they did a lot for the USAAC.
@@phoenixraider42 same for a lot of countries, but we're taking about women directly engaged into battles, right?
There are so many heroic stories about women in WW2, but sadly, we didn't get to experience those stories by ourselves due to bad marketing and the company giving up on the game
@@evilbabai7083 yes, but I want to bring up the WASP force for the people in the U.S.
They were also the only one regiment in Red Army which had no MIAs: every loss were confirmed after war
Good. For me as the son and grandson of soldiers it would hurt when my grandfather would tell me.of his brothers in arms with no know grave, forever missing in action.
And part of why Yevdokia Rachkevich retraced the 588th's path from the war and searched for every crash-site, was so that her girls could have a proper burial and the recognition they deserved. You see, in the Soviet Union at that time, unless your corpse was found, if you were Missing In Action you were considered a Deserter, and if you were captured by the Germans and became a POW, you were considered a Nazi Collaborator unless/until proven Innocent. Before Lieutenant-Colonel Rachkevich found their crash-sites and resting-places, those girls weren't seen as the heroes that they truly were.
@@jamesmcamis8556 You can tell she loved her unit like a family that she made the effort for them to get the respect they deserved....
At first the background music sent the familiarity senses tingling, then you said "Undetected, Unexpected, Stealth Perfected." This really got my attention. Then you mad lads actually did it.
3:38 lol was not expecting that, but a welcome surprise!
Teacher: we are going to Russia
Girls: *the night witches*
Boys: *sing the night witches*
Boys: Soldiers from Osovec
*_Attack of the dead men_*
Based
ride the night witches
cats: NYA NYA
Holy mother of the Red Baron he partnered with sabaton!!!!
When I saw that sabaton and yarn hub screen I pooped myself
Omg thanks bois :) !!!!
I am a history teacher and enthusiast and have never heard of your channel, I have just seen this video live on the sabaton channel and it lead me to your channel, i have already watched 3 videos here and I love it, i wish i knew about your channel since the beginning, absolute respect and tha k you to Sabaton for giving you this publicity a d boost, keep doing amazing work
Sidenote, i am from South Africa and i have not yet seen if you have videos from south african history, i specifically think of the Anglo Boer war and Anglo Zulu war i am not sure yet about your exact style but i would love to some videos about that or about South African contingents in the world wars
Have you heard the song “Rorke’s Drift” by Sabaton on the Anglo Zulu War?
@@Ling__Ling__ Indeed, it is one of my favourite sabaton songs (along with caroleans prayer) that is why I am hoping for a crossover about the zulu war maybe even the heroics at the battle of Rorke's drift with the song in the same style as night witches, you can also head to the sabaton history channel i have some replies to comments on the episode about Rorke's drift where some extra information is added, as I am a history teacher in SA you can probably already asume but that is in the syllabus so I do know quite a lot about that war
@@johanjannasch do you watch Mark Felton
@@sannidhyabalkote9536 I just went to check him out and it's good
@@johanjannasch :)
More fun facts about the Po-2 they flew, the low wing loading of a bi-plane (bi-planes had been outdated for 5-8 years by that point) meant it could glide without engine power for much longer than monoplanes like Yaks or MiGs and the silent approach from above proved useful in part because of this. A secondary factor was something I've read but I can't find any concrete evidence for right now (so consider it as plausible), German AA guns had some target lead detection which was fairly early technology at the time and the Po-2 was too slow for it to track properly, contributing to the bombing success.
Canvas planes were also in general remarkably resilient to small punctures so long as those did not hit the pilot or required control surface.
The too slow for AA also happened in the story of K.M.S Bismarck where she tried to shoot down the Bi-planes (swordfishes) and she didnt shoot down any because the planes were too slow for the Auto Aiming AA
@@TheAviationGuyID True. This also applies to the "Rosie the Rocketeer", an american grasshopper recon aircraft fitted with bazookas on its wings. The fact that it also had low speed meant that german AA fire could not stop it, allowing the plane to take out german panzers from above using its bazookas.
@@TheAviationGuyID couldn’t they fire it manually?
@@vinceking7878 The only thing they could fire manually was the light AAA. Even if the light AA hits it wouldnt do anything as the bullets would just pass through the swordfishes
@@TheAviationGuyID I know nobody cares but apparently the Bismarck was considered a He rather than a she by the Kreigsmarine. (They thought the ship was so mighty that it deserved a male pronoun)
Yarnhub and Sabaton collaborating, loving it. Man, this collaboration just came like the Night Witches: FROM THE DEPTHS OF HELL IN SILENCE
Nothing about 2020 is good
Except for animated Joakim slapping his knee
Disney:Endgame is the most ambitous crossover in history!
Yarnhub And Sabaton:How the turntables.
Good day stalin
@@winniethepooh3800 g'day
Hmm...100 like
Honestly, the animation just gets SO much smoother with each upload!
The MAN who can match them:
Manfred von Richtofen
"The Red Baron"
now thats a fight we need animated
I ship The Red Baron x White Lily of Stalingrad (who was one of the Night Witches and later on became the first female air ace) 😂
@@kousand9917 i hoping though
You can find something like that in The Magnificent Kotobuki's final episodes...
But remember, We need the whole Red Squadron. The Night Witches are a whole regiment
I get to watch twice! On Sabaton and here!
when he said unexpected and undetected i started to sing the song early without knowing it 2:50 XD
Boys: and his flying higher the king of the sky
Girls: undetected unexpected
Oh dude I wish.
That last crap Battlefield game absolutely should have covered these women and the Soviet female snipers instead of making up the garbage they did. It is an absolute insult to these women warriors that they were not depicted.
Battlefield 5?
Should've been called Genderfield 5.
@@justsomeguywithasurprisede4059 Battlefield Vagina
“which war is this”
Congratulations on the collaboration with Sabaton, you deserve it
The perfect duo doesn't exi-...
Yarnhub and Sabaton glorifies History
bruh
Bruh
I didn't know ABSOLUTE RESPECT could be a feeling. I shed a tear for these women. The bravery of people must always be remembered.
In April of 2019,as a birthday present to myself,I was one of the passengers of an operational Po-2 planes(12 of them are left,6 of them are operational). Yes,it is a slow,but calm plane,easily controllable.
I did remember, that the first instruction to step inside the cockpit was, 'DO NOT STEP ON THE WING, it might break' :) The second was 'MIND YOUR HEAD'...I hit the center part of the top wings,the maintenance crew and the pilot gave me a little smile...the designer of the plane already thought about idiots like me,so he put a strengthening element into the top wings,at the center :D So neither me nor the plane was hurt too much.
Did you you know Po-2 can fly backwards, a 40km/h wing from the front is enough to give it lift while blowing it backwards.
I'm not first
I'm not last
But when I saw Yarnhub I clicked fast
I have to admit, this is a good one!
At some point in the past, you were the last
YEAH SAME
As fast as the blitzkreig
I think i saw the comment be4
Please note that women's clothes were not a part of ostracizm by army command, it was simply unavailable until, I believe, 1944.
Also later this reg went *all* women, even technicians were female.
Also, in 1943 it became 46th guard night bombing Taman of Red Banner and Lenin orders regiment. Red Banner order and Lenin order are awards they received for their service, while Taman is just an honorary title I believe
Why do we understand other people on TH-cam rather than school. I love history and your animations make it more fun i cant wait till the next video
Because the ways schools work is really outdated
@@toasterhavingabath6980 i knew it
Geralt: Hmm **Soft spoken** Wind's howling
Germans: HANZ! DIE NACHTHEXEN!!
Mr Yarnhub Sir, I am truly grateful to you for posting such quality videos that shed more light on the Soviet fight against the Nazis. I grew up to history books teaching us that the US, and to a lesser extent UK, won WW2. It was only much later while researching on the internet I learnt the real fight was on the Eastern Front where 8/10 Nazis were accounted for by the Soviets. Thank you again and keep up the good work.
This song was the first Sabaton song I heard, and to this day is my #1 favorite sabaton song. Yarnhub & Sabaton, you did a fantastic job!
You know Yarnhub is awesome when they animate a full music video of Sabaton.
And that comes from someone that doesn't even listen to Sabaton.
Epic.
I LEARN more important history from Yarnhub than all the so-called "history" courses in college. 👍
Even here, Joakim is still hitting his indestructible knee
His knee literally: 👁️💧👄💧👁️
Goddammit that ending brought me to tears. I didn't know the commissar did that after the war. My god how heartbreaking
I never expected my two favorite TH-cam channels to collaborate
Just like I never expected the night witches were coming
The detail on the planes... the ailerons.... just immaculate attention to detail. Love this channel
What's cooler than telling a true story? Telling it in rock music!
To think that they also need to be close on the front lines with their outdated planes, turn off their engines while doing their bombing runs, and fly at night is absolutely amazing. This is a part of forgotten history that should known.
BTW, I like so much sabaton that I keep "the last stand" as my ring tone. Great video as always!
What I learned here that i didn't get form Sabaton is that these weren't even the best ones, there were the least skilled of all of the Night Witches. Now I want to know how successful the other groups were.
I like that he even added Josef Kociok and his bf 110.
Приятно видеть людей из других стран, которые рассказывают нашу историю)
I had never heard of the Night Witches. Women flying outdated biplanes and kicking ass. If that aint an underdog story i dont know what is.
Is that oversimplified references?
@@Bikavin Looks like a common expression to me.
@@peterni2234 if you watch oversimplified,then you will understand what i am saying,its a channel telling some historical with animation,its very good
Abimanyu Budhanata I do watch oversimplified, I’m stating my opinion, and my opinion is that this is not an example of a oversimplified reference.
This is the story of how Hitler shot himself.
I've found out about Sabaton thanks to Yarnhub's video about Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler. Year later, Yarnhub makes a collaboration without Sabaton about my favourite song. Seriously a fantastic channel
The whole video was incredible. The CGI, direction, music, and story was unbelievable and out-of-this-world. Thank you so much for uploading this!
You guys must had been honored to help animate a Sabaton music video
We were
Sabaton: I am inevitable, if you haven't heard of me yet, you will.
Sabaton+Yarnhub
Greatest crossover in the history of mankind.
When I saw that 'S' on the propeller I knew it was Sabaton. I however didn't know we would get a properly done video out of this. Loved how respectful it was. o7
Спасибо за это видео! Я плакал, когда смотрел его. Это слезы гордости, радости и скорби. Спасибо, что рассказываете не только о героях со стороны США, Великобритании или Канады, но и о героях Советского Союза
Probably the first case of a true stealth attack, way before sonic jets existed.
WW1 planes in WW2 have the best stories about them, no exceptions.
The night witches, attacking the Bismarck and even the tale of Bazooka Charlie, it makes you wonder if even in the current war they have a place.
The Sabaton music was a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.
So that would be...
Unexpected, Undetected
Stealth Perfected!
@@jotarokujo4787 EPIC
This is literally my dream coming true.
After I've first read about them, I stumbled upon Sabaton song and was lying in bed half asleep listening to it. This is almost exactly a clip I dreamed of, except the explosions aren't sinced with drums
Thank you.
I'm an amateur military historian focused on the Korean War. This video raised the hairs on the back of my neck. Wow...mix of Yarnhub and Sabaton sounds like a perfect October 'Witches' brew. VERY well done~~~
Dude I remember Yarnhub having 37K subs now 171k and the quality is this great,Yarnhub pwease remember me when you got 50Million subs pwease?
Gotta say, this is probably my favorite video of you guys' so far; the collab with Sabaton was perfect. Hearing the subtle and familiar riffs of the song while your narrating, and seeing Sabaton's signature S on the plane propellers really set the mood.
On a more somber note, you guys did a good job on the animation all around; in particular, you nailed the animation and expressions of Yevdokia Rachkevich. She genuinely looks upset after crossing off the names, and her animation of her searching for the girls' bodies after the war really made you feel for her. Call me a sap if you want, but I think more of these stories need to be told; I'm using the Night Witches in a book I plan on writing, and I'm hoping I can do them justice.
Fav band partners with one of my fav history channels what could be better
From a slight cameo in the vid with Lawrence of Arabia
( Joakim was at the grave ) to this
Here is the vid I’m referring to btw th-cam.com/video/CMsd3NOmupw/w-d-xo.html
Night witches this is something new. Epic title
Great video Yarnhub! Congratulations on the Sabaton collaboration!
Genuinely thought this was just a regular history video with some references in it at the beginning, was not disapointed by the outcome!
"At her signal, the pilot would cut the engines and swoop in slowly, silently. Dropping their bombs, dealing death from above. Unexpected. Undetected. Stealth perfected."
2:41
legitimately gives me goose bumps, connecting that to the songs' lyrics is just so cool.
Oh my god its happening its happening everyone stay calm
I NEED MORE UPLOADS!!!!!
i've bingewatched your entire channel within a single day. now i'm scared to the bone cuz i have to go back to the infographics show and they are so BAD, they mess up everything and invent things... was so glad to have found this channel here... v_v
pls, work more! :O
if you ever run out of topics, just check the historical stuff of the infographics show and upload correctified versions, you guys are covering the same topics but HERE it's done soooo much better! =')
It is truly incredible to see how this channels animation style has evolved so drastically in just 1 year
Nice heart-touching final point with sixths member - lady-member - of "Sabaton" putting her sunglasses on, like she put her protective airman glasses before...
I'm almost 50, but could not hold my tears.
One remark: in bombing scenes the engines are running, while IRL these Metal Ladies re-started the engines after they passed the bombardment site. The bombardments were committed with the engines turned off.
Why do half of your videos make me tear up? I am 52 and I drove Tanks in the US ARMY. Fortunately, all I ever fought was boredom. My hat goes off to those of all nations who never made it home.
I'm beyond overjoyed to see *sabaton* and *yarnhub* working together!
I was happy to see you include a sabaton reference over on your Lawrence of Arabia video. Hopefully we see more collaborations between you guys!
That Sabaton collab was wild. I love this channel; it's incredibly entertaining and the quality of the animation is very high and the stories behind the videos are also incredibly interesting. Thanks for another great vid!
The Night Witches The Brave women who fear of Nothing Being Brave women flying high and wonderful dedication done by ( YarnHub + Sabaton ) Awesome video done by Them Yarn Hub ❤️ + Sabaton ❤️ Deadly combination 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Dedicated song 🎵🎶🎵🎶 to the Night Witches 🔥👍👍👍👍
That first minute is just epic: perfect blend of animation, narration and Sabaton
Great job !
This is the best yet the most underrated history channel on youtube, not even exaggerating
The graphic so great but wait there's more
SABATON
Guys, you doing great. Did you already make attack of the dead man? I give you mu subs.
I knew about the Night Witches, but this video took it way beyond what I expected. Nice work.
I can't pay attention cause the song is stuck in my head
I actually bursted in tears at the ending of the video. Proud and sad at the same time for all those brave women that never came back home. Excelent video.
I managed to get to see a Po-2 at The Shuttleworth Collection in Bedfordshire. I even nicknamed them "The Witch's Broomsticks".