588th Engineer Battalion
588th may refer to: * 588th Bombardment Squadron, inactive United States Air Force unit * 588th Night Bomber Regiment or Night Witches, the female military aviators of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment of the Soviet Air Forces See also *588 (number) * 588 (other) *588 __NOTOC__ Year 588 ( DLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 588 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar e ..., the year 588 (DLXXXVIII) of the Julian calendar * 588 BC {{mil-unit-dis ...
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588th Bombardment Squadron
588th may refer to: * 588th Bombardment Squadron, inactive United States Air Force unit *588th Night Bomber Regiment or Night Witches, the female military aviators of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment of the Soviet Air Forces See also *588 (number) * 588 (other) *588, the year 588 (DLXXXVIII) of the Julian calendar *588 BC This article concerns the period 589 BC – 580 BC. Events and trends *589 BC—Apries succeeds Psamtik II as king of Egypt. *589 BC—Nebuchadnezzar II begins his siege of Jerusalem. *589 BC— Battle of An: Jin defeats Qi; these two Chines ...

588th Night Bomber Regiment
"Night Witches" (german: die Nachthexen; russian: Ночные ведьмы, ) was a World War II German nickname for the all-female military aviators of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment, known later as the 46th "Taman" Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment, of the Soviet Air Forces. Though women were officially barred from combat at the time, Major Marina Raskova used her position and personal contacts with the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to obtain permission to form female combat units. "Combat facilitated and ushered in a reluctant acceptance of women in military, based more upon practicality and necessity than for equality". On October 8, 1941, an order was issued to deploy three women's air-force units, including the 588th Regiment. The regiment, formed by Raskova and led by Major Yevdokiya Bershanskaya, was composed primarily of female volunteers in their late teens and early twenties. An attack technique of the night bombers involved idling the engine near the target and g ...
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588 (number)
500 (five hundred) is the natural number following 499 and preceding 501. Mathematical properties 500 = 22 × 53. It is an Achilles number and an Harshad number, meaning it is divisible by the sum of its digits. It is the number of planar partitions of 10. Other fields Five hundred is also *the number that many NASCAR races often use at the end of their race names (e.g., Daytona 500), to denote the length of the race (in miles, kilometers or laps). *the longest advertised distance (in miles) of the IndyCar Series and its premier race, the Indianapolis 500. Slang names * Monkey (UK slang for £500; USA slang for $500) Integers from 501 to 599 500s 501 501 = 3 × 167. It is: * the sum of the first 18 primes (a term of the sequence ). * palindromic in bases 9 (6169) and 20 (15120). 502 * 502 = 2 × 251 * vertically symmetric number 503 503 is: * a prime number. * a safe prime. * the sum of three consecutive primes (163 + 167 + 173). * the sum of the c ...
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588 (other)
588 may refer to: * The year 588 * The 588th Night Bomber Regiment, a World War II Soviet women-only combat regiment. * 588 Achilles, an asteroid. * Cheongnyangni 588, a red light district in Seoul, South Korea. * Meadow Lake No. 588, Saskatchewan, a rural municipality in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. * Texas House Bill 588 Roads: * Pennsylvania Route 588 * Highway 588 (Ontario) * Ohio State Route 588 State Route 588 (SR 588) is an east–west state highway in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Ohio. The western terminus of SR 588 is at SR 325 in Rio Grande. Its eastern terminus is at a signalized intersection with SR 7 in d ...