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LeeC:
The Confederate Rebel Yell
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/category/3play_1/what-did-the-rebel-yell-sound-like/?no-ist
GarandMarine:
With a rebel yell, she cries more, more, more....
HauntingPoem:
Just incase you didn't know, THe IL2 was the aircraft flown by the women in the OP.
GarandMarine:
The 588th Night Bomber Regiment (Night Witches) did not fly the IL-2 Shturmovik fighter bomber but rather Po-2 biplanes.
Sorflakne:
IIRC, they also killed their engines as they approached their targets to increase the element of surprise, and then fired them up after dropping their payloads and got out before AA could respond.
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