Women in the war
It just so happens that all our ideas about war are associated with the image of a male soldier. This is understandable: it was mostly the representatives of the stronger sex - men who fought. And for some reason they usually forget to say about women, that they also did a lot to win. During the Great Patriotic War, women not only rescued and bandaged the wounded, but also fired sniper rifles, blew up bridges, went on reconnaissance missions, and flew airplanes.
Let's remember about these women-heroes?
Snipers: Faina Yakimova, Roza Shanina, Lidia Volodina
Hero of the Soviet Union Natalya Fedorovna Meklin (Kravtsova).
Rosa Shanina. 54 destroyed enemies.
Hero of the Soviet Union Lidiya Vladimirovna Litvyak. The most productive female fighter of the Second World War. On her account 14 shot down enemy planes.
Hero of the Soviet Union Lyudmila Pavlichenko. The most productive female sniper - 309 killed [incl. 36 snipers].
Maria Dolina, deputy squadron commander, Hero of the Soviet Union.
Alexandra Samusenko, tank battalion commander.
Elizaveta Mironova, 34 Germans are known to have been killed by her.
Anti-aircraft gunner Elena Ivanova.
Nurse Kozlova A. feeds the wounded major Nogin V. in hospital No. 2-386.
Soviet nurses bandaging a slightly wounded SS prisoner.
Raya Surnachevskaya
Ekaterina Budanova, 11 downed enemy aircraft.
Commander Maria Dolina (left) and navigator Galina Dzhunkovskaya
Soviet female pilots.
Heroes of the Soviet Union Marina Chechneva and Ekaterina Ryabova
From left to right: Tamara Pamyatnykh, Rita Kokina, Evgenia Borak, Irina Favorskaya
"A gift to the invaders." Ekaterina Terekhova adds ammo.
Lyudimila Popova, PE-2 navigator
Women partisans in liberated Minsk, 1944.
Tamara Pamyatnykh and Galina Burdina after a night fight
Let's remember about these women-heroes?
Snipers: Faina Yakimova, Roza Shanina, Lidia Volodina
Hero of the Soviet Union Natalya Fedorovna Meklin (Kravtsova).
Rosa Shanina. 54 destroyed enemies.
Hero of the Soviet Union Lidiya Vladimirovna Litvyak. The most productive female fighter of the Second World War. On her account 14 shot down enemy planes.
Hero of the Soviet Union Lyudmila Pavlichenko. The most productive female sniper - 309 killed [incl. 36 snipers].
Maria Dolina, deputy squadron commander, Hero of the Soviet Union.
Alexandra Samusenko, tank battalion commander.
Elizaveta Mironova, 34 Germans are known to have been killed by her.
Anti-aircraft gunner Elena Ivanova.
Nurse Kozlova A. feeds the wounded major Nogin V. in hospital No. 2-386.
Soviet nurses bandaging a slightly wounded SS prisoner.
Raya Surnachevskaya
Ekaterina Budanova, 11 downed enemy aircraft.
Commander Maria Dolina (left) and navigator Galina Dzhunkovskaya
Soviet female pilots.
Heroes of the Soviet Union Marina Chechneva and Ekaterina Ryabova
From left to right: Tamara Pamyatnykh, Rita Kokina, Evgenia Borak, Irina Favorskaya
"A gift to the invaders." Ekaterina Terekhova adds ammo.
Lyudimila Popova, PE-2 navigator
Women partisans in liberated Minsk, 1944.
Tamara Pamyatnykh and Galina Burdina after a night fight
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