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2. Women in World War II - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

3. List of female SOE agents - Wikipedia

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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.

4. Soviet women in World War II - Wikipedia

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   Soviet women played an important role in World War II (whose Eastern Front was known as the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union). While most worked in industry, transport, agriculture and other civilian roles, working double shifts to free up enlisted men to fight and increase military production, a sizable number of women served in the army.

5. American women in World War II - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

6. Muriel Phillips - Wikipedia

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   Muriel Rose Phillips (January 12, 1921 – June 30, 2022) was an American military veteran, writer, and public speaker who was widely recognised for her service as a United States Army nurse during World War II. [2]

7. Lydia Litvyak - Wikipedia

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   Flying for Her Country: the American and Soviet women military pilots of World War II. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-275-99434-1. Cottam, Kazimiera J. (1998). Women in War and Resistance: Selected Biographies of Soviet Women Soldiers. Focus Publishing/R.Pullins Co. ISBN 1-58510-160-5. Jackson, Robert (2003). Air aces of World War II ...

8. Ruby Bradley - Wikipedia

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   Colonel Ruby Bradley (December 19, 1907 – May 28, 2002) was a United States Army Nurse Corps officer, a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II, and one of the most decorated women in the United States military. [1] She was a native of Spencer, West Virginia but lived in Falls Church, Virginia, for over 50 years.

9. Podgórski sisters - Wikipedia

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   Women Heroes of World War II. Chicago: Chicago Review Press. ISBN 9781556529610. Podgorska Stefania (1925) at Podgorski Family Club webpage, including photographs. [dead link ‍] Stefania and her younger sister Helena Podgorska, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C., 2008. [dead link ‍]