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Several hundred thousand women served in combat roles, especially in anti-aircraft units. The Soviet Union integrated women directly into their army units; approximately one million served in the Red Army, including about at least 50,000 on the frontlines; Bob Moore noted that "the Soviet Union was the only major power to use women in front-line roles," [2]: 358, 485 The United States, by ...
[13] Yevdokiya Nosal Евдокия Носаль 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment: Junior Lieutenant 24 May 1943 *: Killed in action on 23 April 1943 when hit in the head by a piece of shrapnel from anti-aircraft fire.
Soviet Women on the Frontline in the Second World War (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) Noggle, Anne (1994). A Dance With Death: Soviet Airwomen in World War II. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press. Pennington, Reina. Wings, Women, and War: Soviet Airwomen in World War II Combat (2007) excerpt and text search ISBN 0-7006-1145-2 ...
Mariya Vasilyevna Oktyabrskaya (Russian: Мария Васильевна Октябрьская; 16 August 1905 – 15 March 1944) was a Soviet tank driver and mechanic who fought on the Eastern Front against Nazi Germany during World War II. After her husband was killed fighting in 1941, Oktyabrskaya sold her possessions to donate a tank for ...
Tatyana Nikolayevna Baramzina (Russian: Татья́на Никола́евна Барамзина́; 19 December 1919 – 5 July 1944) was a Soviet sniper and telephone operator in World War II who was posthumously awarded the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union on 24 March 1945 for her self-sacrifice to defend wounded Red Army soldiers.
Lydia Litvyak was born in Moscow into a Russian family. [7] Her mother Anna Vasilievna Litvyak was a shop assistant; her father Vladimir Leontievich Litvyak (1892–1937) worked as a railwayman, train driver and clerk.
The following is a list of female agents who served in the field for the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II. SOE's objectives were to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in occupied Europe (and later, also in occupied Southeast Asia) against the Axis powers, and to aid local resistance movements.
Like his sister, he was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union, and, like Zoya, posthumously. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] In 1929, the family moved to Siberia for fear of persecution. In 1930, they moved to Moscow .