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Originally Posted by strikeforce
Great Article in Flight Journal Mag last year about Russian Women WWII aces.
Their numbers kicked some serious butt. Big Kill Stats, Bring this up at the VFW or the "O" Club and see what happens!!
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And the amazing part of that is that many of the women pilots were relegated to second-line aircraft, like Polikarpovs, since they were viewed even by the "enlightened" Soviet Man as still a bit inferior. When they let a few get into MiG-3s or Laggs, they were as amazed as the German pilots who faced those woman warriors (of course, the Germans didn't know they were facing women during combat).