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In April she again requested to be sent to the Eastern front, but after the establishment of women's naval detachment of the Pacific fleet in May by decree of the State Defense Committee she was sent to the Pacific front to fight in the Soviet-Japanese war as part of the 51st artillery battalion as a signalman. She was later reassigned to the ...
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.
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 ...
[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.
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 ...
Pages in category "Female resistance members of World War II" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 275 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The armies of Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941. Onilova volunteered for service in the Red Army when the Siege of Odessa commenced in August 1941. She was originally made a medic in 54th Rifle Regiment in the 25th Rifle Division of the Separate Coastal Army, but soon used her prewar training to prove herself as a gunner when she picked up her comrades' jammed machine gun ...
Valeriya Osipovna Gnarovskaya (Russian: Вале́рия О́сиповна Гнаро́вская; 18 October 1923 – 23 September 1943) was a medic in the 907th Rifle Regiment who fought on the Stalingrad Front in World War II. On 23 September 1943, when a German tank broke through the Soviet line of defence where she was treating wounded ...