My introduction was Night Witches by Sabaton.

My kids were big fans of Drunk History when they were 8 or 9 and they watched the episode about the Night Witches and spent the next few days pretending to fly around and bomb fascists.

Fun facts about the Night Witches:

• they flew antiquated, cloth-wing biplanes in the dark, without any sort of night vision, much less radar
• they would cut their engines and glide silently on the final approach to their bombing runs
• they initially refused to carry parachutes, to reduce weight and increase their speed and range