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Cottam, K. Jean. "Soviet Women in Combat in World War II: The Rear Services, Resistance behind Enemy Lines and Military Political Workers," International Journal of Women's Studies (1982) 5#4 pp 363–378. DeGroot, G. J. "Whose finger on the trigger? Mixed anti-aircraft batteries and the female combat taboo" War in History 4#4 434–453
On 25 October 2018, the United Kingdom opened combat roles for women. Women currently serving at the time were eligible to transfer to infantry roles within the British Army, and recruits were made able to apply for infantry after 21 December 2018. [319] Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force ended a ban on women on Japan's submarines. [320]
1997: Pyeon Bo-ra, Jang Se-jin, and Park Ji-yeon became the first women to enter South Korea's Air Force Academy, and as such were called the "first female red mufflers". [43] 1998: The Australian Navy became the second nation to allow women to serve on combat submarines. Canada and Spain followed in permitting women to serve on military ...
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Women who served during WWI were demobilized when hostilities ceased, and aside from the Nurse Corps the uniformed military became once again exclusively male. In 1942, women were brought into the military again, largely following the British model. [13] [14] The Woman's Army Auxiliary Corps was established in the United States in 1942. However ...
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 57 (April 1993), 301-323 online and in JSTOR; Cook, Bernard A. Women and war: a historical encyclopedia from antiquity to the present (2 vol. 2006)
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 JSTOR 2944060; Cottam, K. Jean Soviet Airwomen in Combat in World War II (Manhattan, KS: Military Affairs/Aerospace Historian Publishing, 1983)
1912: Rayna Kasabova is the first woman in history to participate in a military flight, flying as an observer on combat missions during the Balkan Wars. She carries out a number of sorties, including dropping propaganda materials and bombs on Ottoman positions during the siege of Adrianople. [citation needed]