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Lyudmila Pavlichenko - Wikipedia
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Pavlichenko fought for about two and a half months during the Siege of Odessa, where she recorded 187 kills.[11] She was promoted to Senior Sergeant in August 1941, when she reached 100 confirmed kills. At age 25, she married a fellow sniper, Alexei Kitsenko.[6] Soon after the marriage, Kitsenko was mortally wounded by a mortar shell, and died from his injuries after a few days in the hospital.[8] When the Romanian Army gained control of Odessa on 15 October 1941, her unit was withdrawn by sea to Sevastopol on the Crimean Peninsula,[11] to fight in the Siege of Sevastopol.[9][7] There she trained other snipers, who killed over a hundred Axis soldiers during the battle.[7] In May 1942, newly promoted Lieutenant Pavlichenko was cited by the Southern Army Council for killing 257 Axis soldiers. Her total of confirmed kills during World War II was 309,[12][9] including 36 Axis snipers.“
Night Witches - Wikipedia
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Throughout the course of the war the regiment accumulated approximately 23,672 sorties in combat, including in the following battles:[7]
In total the regiment collectively accumulated 28,676 flight hours, dropped over 3,000 tons of bombs and over 26,000 incendiary shells, damaging or completely destroying 17 river crossings, nine railways, two railway stations, 26 warehouses, 12 fuel depots, 176 armored cars, 86 firing points, and 11 searchlights. In addition to bombings, the unit performed 155 supply drops of food and ammunition to Soviet forces.[7”
- Battle of the Caucasus – 2,920 sorties
- Kuban, Taman, Novorossiysk – 4,623 sorties
- Crimean Offensive – 6,140 sorties
- Belarus Offensive – 400 sorties
- Poland Offensive – 5,421 sorties
- German Offensive – 2,000 sorties
Always funny watching conservatives show how little they know about history.
This is not a conservative versus liberal topic.
What was learned in Russia in WW2 is that women are superior at defending the home front, while men are superior at offense. It was also learned once a female unit went into the killing mode, they could not be turned off. It takes little thought to why women would be better at home defense while men superior at offense.