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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.
A Companion to World War II (2 vol 2015) 2:717–738; Cook, Bernard A. Women and war: a historical encyclopedia from antiquity to the present (ABC-CLIO 2006) Cottam, K. Jean (1980). "Soviet Women in Combat in World War II: The Ground Forces and the Navy". International Journal of Women's Studies. 3 (4): 345– 357. Diamond, Hanna. Women and the ...
Pages in category "Women in World War II" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 230 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
American women in World War II became involved in many tasks they rarely had before; as the war involved global conflict on an unprecedented scale, the absolute urgency of mobilizing the entire population made the expansion of the role of women inevitable. Their services were recruited through a variety of methods, including posters and other ...
It was the only all Black US Women's Army Corps unit sent overseas during World War II. [2] The group motto was "No mail, low morale". [ 3 ] The battalion was organized into five companies: Headquarters, and Companies A, B, C, and D. [ 4 ] Most of the 6888th worked as postal clerks, but others were cooks, mechanics and held other support ...
Women in the Yugoslav Partisans (45 P) Pages in category "Female resistance members of World War II" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 275 total.
American civilian or military women who had a role in World War II (1941-1945). Subcategories This category has the following 12 subcategories, out of 12 total.
Campbell, D'Ann. "Women in Combat: The World War Two Experience in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and the Soviet Union" Journal of Military History (April 1993), 57:301–323. online edition; Campbell, D'Ann. "The women of World War II." in A Companion to World War II ed. by Thomas W. Zeiler(2013) 2:717–738. online