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Phủ Lý was taken by the French canonnière l'Espingole and 28 men captained by Adrien-Paul Balny d'Avricourt on October 26 1873, shortly before Balny's death together with Francis Garnier at Hanoi's West Gate. [1] In the aftermath of World War II, Phủ Lý was where a significant number of VNQDĐ leaders were captured by the Việt Minh in ...
The first large group of American women in combat. [64] The largest group of American women taken captive and imprisoned by an enemy. [64] During World War II, the captured nurses were portrayed to motivate industrial production. [65] During World War II, the captured nurses were portrayed to motivate recruitment of additional military nurses. [66]
Bombing of Romania in World War II, by Richard R. Ganczak (restored by Buidhe) Belgian version of the Yellow Badge at The Holocaust in Belgium , by DRG-fan Short film about the Women Airforce Service Pilots , by the United States Army
On January 30, 1945, during World War II, United States Army Rangers, Alamo Scouts and Filipino guerrillas attacked the camp and liberated more than 500 prisoners. After the surrender of tens of thousands of American troops during the Battle of Bataan , many were sent to the Cabanatuan prison camp after the Bataan Death March .
The Himeyuri students (ひめゆり学徒隊, Himeyuri Gakutotai, Lily Princesses Student Corps), sometimes called "Lily Corps" in English, was a group of 222 students and 18 teachers of the Okinawa Daiichi (First) Girls' High School [] and Okinawa Shihan Women's School [] formed into a nursing unit for the Imperial Japanese Army during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945.
Pages in category "Female resistance members of World War II" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 275 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Jeannie Yvonne Ghislaine Rousseau, married name Jeannie de Clarens, (1 April 1919 – 23 August 2017) was an Allied intelligence agent in occupied France during World War II, a member of the "Druids" network led by Georges Lamarque [].
The photograph appeared on the cover of a 1948 book about the Stroop Report.. The only woman in the photograph who survived was the one at right, Małka Zdrojewicz.With other young women imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto, she was forced to work in a brush factory.