RIPSaidCone
tolmie
I'm sorry, I missed the part where Tahana put you in charge.
This is an alternative universe not set in any specific allied nation of our history, so it's fair to say the OP could make any changes to history he wants.
Also, the French and Dutch resistance was very active alongside allied troops, even the Paratroopers throughout the war. Allied soldiers needed intelligence. Local 'spies' were often the best means of gaining that as well as translating. Most spies, interesting enough, were female because the Nazis were less suspicious of women.
In regards to the Red Army, you are right that they were preferred by the government to serve in all- women battalions, but like I said, Tahana can make any changes he wants. You're wrong that they only fought 'once or twice'. Lyudimla Pavlychenko was credited with 309 kills, making her one of the top snipers of all time. She was a part of the 25th rifle division, an all-male, otherwise normal unit. She joined before the 'women battalions' were created and like many other women, was accepted to serve alongside men because the Soviet Union needed every soldier it could get to push back the advancing Wehrmacht. A notable woman who served in a 'women battalion' would be Lidya Litvak. Her and one of her comrades became the first women to earn the title 'fighter ace' having downed more Luftwaffe aircraft than most pilots on the western front.
Is it really too much of a stretch that this imaginary nation fighting an imaginary world-war-twoesquse battle could accept a woman into its paratroopers, whether because they're running out of soldiers or they need the propaganda for morale purposes or even because they're 'not' sexist like our forefathers in history? If so, is it really too much of a stretch to allow a female resistance character performing the duties that were there, recorded in history, around the dropping of liberating soldiers onto their village?
I mean goodness, just Google 'Women in WW2' and click into the first link you see. It's never truly been just a man's world. Everyone fought the Nazis.
Interesting character plot: My female character serves and your male one doubts her every step of the way until he sees that men aren't the only ones who can bare baptism under fire.
I'm sorry, I missed the part where my response warranted you to be a smart-alek.
I said that I was on the assumption that it was going to be a fictional version of an Allied country in this alternate universe. IE whatever this universe's equivelant of the Allies is and that women didn't serve in the active-duty military. I am fully aware that they did as spies, rebels, factory workers, farmers and on the Soviet side, snipers and pilots. But not as paratroopers. We're talking about paratroopers here not snipers, pilots or spies.
No it's not hard to picture it, my point was that even so women were incredibly rare during the actual fighting in WW2 in comparison to men, so much so that Russia has been predominately female since the end of WW2 due to how many men died in comparison to women. That's only started to regulate itself in the past 15-20 years, Germany had the same problem but not to the extent of Russia (for obvious reasons) and that solved itself during the 80s I believe.
As said before, it's not hard to imagine. In-fact its very easy but the RP is about a squad of paratroopers being misdropped not a female resistance fighter, spy, sniper or pilot.
Also I am actually a woman, don't assume I'm a guy just cause I'm pointing out how WW2 was. There were dozens upon dozens of women working hard in factories and on farms making sure their countries could actually keep fighting but you seem to be over representing their presence on the battlefield just because of a few Soviets and a propaganda battalion. Note that I said battlefield and not overall because there were as you said, spies and resistance fighters that were women. I assume you believe I'm some kind of 'patriarchical oppressor of women' but I'm not, just pointing out the fact that women were rare in the actual fighting of World War 2 but I am in no way doubting their contributions to the overall war effort.
That plot is just very cheesy sounding.
