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Originally Posted by Roddoss72  ...and to my surprise many in those squads were women ... |
I'd be surprised too. Women served as auxiliaries (comms specialists, medics, traffic controllers, AA gun crews, etc.) and there are also cases of a few serving as snipers. In the air force they served as mechanics, armourers, etc., and there were a few front line pilots as well. As Gibbo says, the blocking detachments were NKVD troops, male only.
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