White Tights (Mythical Female Snipers)

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Never heard of these before; although in WWII I have seen claims that as many as 40% of all Russian snipers were women with some sniper units running as high as 60%.

You will also hear about tank regiments manned by women, combat records are very non-existant so this may be more of a propaganda claim.

The famous claims of aviation regiments manned by women are true, but their combat records also show that they were committed to fairly quiet sectors; they were also issued older ac designs.

There were several mortar units that were made up of women and did see combat, the handful of reports that I have seen gave them high marks.

Soviets also formed truck regiments of women, a lot of them were used in the convoying of supplies to Leningrad during the seige as well as Stalingrad during and after the battle. According to Soviet accounts, they were a hell of lot more willing to take risk in delivering supplies than the men were....