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1077th Anti-Aircraft Regiment

March 10, 2015 in Modern Worthies

1077th Anti-Aircraft Regiment

Tank-destroying teenage girls

When Nazi tankers invaded Stalingrad in 1942, they fought shot-for-shot against unlikely opponents - a squadron of girls barely out of high school.

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