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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 ...
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 ...
In October 1941, Major Marina Raskova was granted authority to select candidates for the 122nd Composite Air Group, an all-female aviation regiment. Raskova had already established several world records in long-distance non-stop flights and was referred to as the "Russian Amelia Earhart " for her achievements.
Women Pilots of World War II. Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah Press. ISBN 978-0-87480-493-5.. Cornelsen, Kathleen (2005). "Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II: Exploring Military Aviation, Encountering Discrimination, and Exchanging Traditional Roles in Service to America". Journal of Women's History. 17 (4): 111– 119.
Photo courtesy of the Musée de la Libération. The Rochambelles were the first women’s unit integrated into an armored division on the western front during World War II. A total of 51 women served in the First Company, 13th medical battalion of the French Second Armored Division from 1943 to 1945, and then some members continued on to Indochina.
The 586th Fighter Aviation Regiment (Russian: 586-й истребительный авиационный полк, romanized: 586-y istrebitel'nyy aviatsionnyy polk) was one of the three Soviet women's aviation regiments founded by Marina Raskova at the start of the Second World War after she convinced Joseph Stalin to allow her to form three all-female aviation regiments.
Born in 1924 as Mariya Limanskaya, she joined the Red Army in 1942, at the height of World War II. She was 18. [3] [4] At that time the Soviet Stavka ("high command") increasingly lacked trained reserves to reinforce the entire 2,000-kilometre (1,200 mi) front, and as a result began to conscript underage boys and girls. [5]
Women in Air War – The Eastern front of World War II. Newburyport, Massachusetts: R. Pullins Company. ISBN 978-1-58510-159-7. Cottam, Kazimiera (1998a). Women in War and Resistance: Selected Biographies of Soviet Soldier Women. Soviet Women in Combat in World War II. New Military Publications. ISBN 0-9682702-2-0. Jackson, Robert (2003).