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Female soldiers Stalingrad

There were women who fought on the Russian side, in tanks or infantry.
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Females were used in almost all roles during the war. Most common was Air defense and Artillery. There were tank companies comprised of all females. Engineer/sapper units of mostly females. Many squadrons of all females and ground crews too. A lot of infantry battalions had females in some auxillary role. Snipers, the steorotypical hollywood version of Russian female soldiers was small compared to the other professions. Several good russian books recently translated on this topic available online.

Sort of off topic but sometimes armored vehicles would be manned by a family. The driver would be the father, gunner/cdr the wife, and loader the son or daughter. This occured in the dark days of 41/42 and the family usually took possesion of the vehicle straight from the factory.
 
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Sort of off topic but sometimes armored vehicles would be manned by a family. The driver would be the father, gunner/cdr the wife, and loader the son or daughter. This occured in the dark days of 41/42 and the family usually took possesion of the vehicle straight from the factory.

off topic? maybe. interesting? definitely! :)
 
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