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Title: We've lost a real hero. Post by: Svengoolie 3 on September 17, 2018, 04:25:49 PM I don't know if there ever was. A. Movie about her but there should be.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/freddie-oversteegen-dutch-resistance-fighter-who-killed-nazis-through-seduction-dies-at-92/ar-BBNqAy8?ocid=ob-fb-enus-280 (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/freddie-oversteegen-dutch-resistance-fighter-who-killed-nazis-through-seduction-dies-at-92/ar-BBNqAy8?ocid=ob-fb-enus-280) Title: Re: We've lost a real hero. Post by: indianasmith on September 17, 2018, 05:16:45 PM Too often we forget the Greatest Generation included women as well as men.
Title: Re: We've lost a real hero. Post by: Svengoolie 3 on September 17, 2018, 07:30:19 PM Too often we forget the Greatest Generation included women as well as men. You're a history buff, indy, so do you know about the rusisian night witches? Title: Re: We've lost a real hero. Post by: indianasmith on September 17, 2018, 09:53:24 PM Wasn't that the nickname for an all-female Russian commando group that worked various acts of sabotage and mayhem on the German army?
Title: Re: We've lost a real hero. Post by: ER on September 17, 2018, 11:44:52 PM Thank you for that link, Sven. How brave she must have been, death always at hand, surrounded by enemies. She defined courage.
Title: Re: We've lost a real hero. Post by: Alex on September 18, 2018, 03:11:39 AM The Night Witches were Soviet female pilots who would glide to their targets with their engines switched off and then manually start them mid flight to achieve surprise. Not an easy task.
Title: Re: We've lost a real hero. Post by: Svengoolie 3 on September 18, 2018, 05:49:45 AM The Night Witches were Soviet female pilots who would glide to their targets with their engines switched off and then manually start them mid flight to achieve surprise. Not an easy task. Indy, this guy got it right. Those women did things that would make. Modern fighter jet jocks cringe. They we're terribly successful at makibghe eastern front hell for the nazis. They flew under horrific conditions to bomb enemny camps. |