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German soldiers on the Eastern Front feared one sound more than gunfire. A faint whoosh in the dark sky above their heads. It meant the Night Witches had found them, and the bombs were already falling.
A worker noticed a leak and grabbed a wrench to fix it. One spark from that strike changed everything. Firefighters spent twenty minutes trying to cool a tank that was already doomed.
Eleven of them never made it home.