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WW2 Women on the Frontline
The War in The Air
Season 1
Episode 102
Meet the female flying aces who took on Hitler’s aerial threat and helped win the war. Remarkable figures from World War II are revealed, including a pilot who delivered more than 1400 aircraft with only her flying skills to keep her alive, a Soviet group called the Night Witches who completed thousands of sorties and a Gunner Girl battling Hitler’s Luftwaffe.
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Includes the little-known feats of female journalists, nurses and guerilla fighters.
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Brave women across Europe risked it all to battle against Hitler ’s Nazi hordes behind enemy lines.