I don't think he means that women haven't flown combat missions. I think he means they haven't actually engaged enemy fighter aircraft in a fight to the death. Maybe WWII Russian women may have. Ops!!! Google is a wonderful thing..."Yekaterina Vasylievna Budanova (Cyrillic: Екатерина Васильевна Буданова), also known as Katya Budanova (Катя Буданова), (6 December 1916 – 19 July 1943), was a fighter pilot in the Soviet Air Force during World War II. With 11 air victories, along with Lydia Litvyak (10x Bf109 and others), she was one of the world's two female fighter aces." Both of the two female Aces were shot down and killed during WWII...