GIRL PARACHUTISTS
Machine-gunner Claims 500
Nazi Victims SEBASTOPOL offensive Rec. 1 p.m. LONDON, March 8. The Red Star publishes a picture showing five Russian girl parachutists armed with automatic rifles, which is the first indication that women are being employed as parachutists. Nina Onilova, a woman machine-gunner at Sebastopol, is claimed so far to have killed 500 Germans.
Heavy Russian attacks from Sebastopol and from the Kerch Peninsula continue, although progress is slow in the face of stubborn German and Rumanian resistance.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 57, 9 March 1942, Page 5
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