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During World War I and World War II, the primary role of women shifted towards employment in munitions factories, agriculture and food rationing, and other areas to fill the gaps left by men who had been drafted into the military. One of the most notable changes during World War II was the inclusion of many of women in regular military units.
Her letters remain one of the few surviving primary accounts of female soldiers in the American Civil War. [27] [28] Laura J. Williams was a woman who disguised herself as a man and used the alias Lt. Henry Benford in order to raise and lead a company of Texas Confederates. She and the company participated in the Battle of Shiloh. [29] [30]
Women war correspondents (4 C, 55 P) Female war criminals (1 C, 15 P) Female wartime cross-dressers (4 C, 100 P) G. War goddesses (14 C, 84 P) M. Women in the ...
Women Military Pilots of World War II: A History with Biographies of American, British, Russian and German Aviators. Pennington, Reina, (2007). Wings, Women & War: Soviet Airwomen in World War II Combat; Pennington, Reina, (2010).
1950-1953: (): Women who were in the Reserves were recalled to active duty.More than 500 Army nurses served in various areas and theaters of the war. [1] [2]Captain Lillian Kinkella Keil, USAF, who had already made 250 evacuation flights (23 of which were transatlantic) during World War II, made 175 evacuation flights during the Korean War.
Campbell, DAnn, and Karen Hagemann. "Post-1945 Western Militaries, Female Soldiers and Gay and Lesbian Rights" in The Oxford Handbook of Gender, War, and the Western World since 1600 (2020). Carreiras, Helena. Gender and the military: Women in the armed forces of western democracies (Routledge, 2006). Goldschmidt, Arthur (2000).
The following is a list of prominent women in war and their exploits from about 1500 up to about 1699. Only women active in direct warfare, such as warriors, spies, and women who actively led armies are included in this list.
Pages in category "Women in war 1945–1999" The following 132 pages are in this category, out of 132 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *