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PolishUnderground State. Maria Wittek (noms de guerre "Mira", "Pani Maria"; 16 August 1899 – 19 April 1997) was a Polish military leader who served in the Polish Army and associated organizations from age 18 and, following retirement, in 1991 became the first Polish woman to be promoted to brigadier-general.
Category. : Polish female soldiers. Polish female soldiers . This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Polish soldiers. It includes soldiers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
Ukraine shows better results in military gender equality than countries like Norway (7%) or United Kingdom (9%). There are few female high officers, 2.9% (1,202 women), [106] with a dozen female colonels as of 2010 [108] and the first female general appointed in October 2018. [109]
Approximately 350,000 American women joined the military during World War II. Women also took part in the resistances of France, Italy, Poland, and Yugoslavia, as well as in the British SOE and American OSS which aided these. Some women were forced into sexual slavery: the Imperial Japanese Army forced hundreds of thousands in Asia to become ...
The women of SOE were all given military rank, with honorary commissions in either the Women's Transport Service, the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY), officially part of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) though a very elite and autonomous part, or the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF). In preparation for her service in France, she had ...
Commander Polish Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, Germany. Halszka Wasilewska, sometimes called Halina, (21 March 1899 – 8 February 1961), WW2 nom-de-guerre Krystyna, was one of the first women to attain the rank of Major in the Polish Armed Forces. She was a Legionnaire in the First World War and the subsequent Polish-Soviet War in 1920.
Lewandowska (née Dowbor-Muśnicka) was born 22 April 1908, in Kharkiv in the Russian Empire. Her father, Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki, was a successful Polish military general. [2] As a teenager, she joined the Poznań Flying Club and earned her glider and parachutist certificates. At the age of 20, she became the first European woman to parachute ...
e. Elżbieta Zawacka (Polish pronunciation: [ɛlˈʐbjɛta zaˈvat͡ska]; 19 March 1909 – 10 January 2009), known also by her war-time nom de guerre Zo, was a Polish university professor, scouting instructor, SOE agent and a freedom fighter during World War II. She was promoted to brigadier general of the Polish Army (the second woman in the ...