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Originally Posted by Commander Wallace
I once saw a documentary of women flying combat aircraft in the former USSR during WW2 and being snipers in the infantry.
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Women actually served in all sorts of frontline roles in the USSR - as many as 800,000 served, 200,000 were decorated for their combat service, and 89 even received the highest military honour:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet...n_World_War_II
There were a number of women-only combat units as well.