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I Am a Soldier Too. The Jessica Lynch Story. Knopf. ISBN 1-4000-7747-8. Mulrine, Anna (March 14, 2008). "Out of the Spotlight: Five Years on, Jessica Lynch and her ex-POW comrades look back". U.S. News & World Report. ISSN 0041-5537. Martyn, Peter H (2008). "Lynch Mob: Pack journalism and how the Jessica Lynch story became propaganda".
Leigh Ann Hester (born January 12, 1982) [2] is a United States Army National Guard soldier. While assigned to the 617th Military Police Company, [3] a Kentucky Army National Guard unit out of Richmond, Kentucky, [3] Hester received the Silver Star for her heroic actions on 20 March 2005 during an enemy ambush on a supply convoy near the town of Salman Pak, Iraq.
Female confederate soldier belonging to a Louisiana regiment, described by the British colonel Arthur Fremantle, who travelled through the confederacy for over 3 months in 1863 as a war tourist. He wrote; "A goodish-looking woman was pointed out to in my car as having served as a private soldier in the battles of Perryville and Murfreesboro ...
Female Navy pilots flew helicopters and reconnaissance aircraft. Sixteen U.S. servicewomen were killed during the war. [1] [7] [34] [50] MAJ Margaret Bahnsen became the first female Regimental Tactical Officer at West Point (3rd Regiment), although MAJ Brenda Bradley served as an acting Regimental Tactical Officer in July 1987. [16]
Mary and Molly were cousins who grew up together in the mountains of Southwest Virginia on a typical farm, small and rural. [1] The girls learned how to ride horses and hunt for food, and through working on the farm and helping provide for their family, became accustomed to the hard work and dedication that would be required of them in the military.
A group representing the families of hostages held in Gaza has released new video footage showing Hamas’ capture of five female Israeli soldiers near the Gaza border on Oct. 7. The video shows ...
She is known as one of the female interrogators who used sexual humiliation, and sexual taunting, to break the will of her devout Muslim captives. The New York Daily News reported that she forced her captives to fondle her breasts. [1] She also wore skimpy clothing to make the Muslim detainees being questioned stressed and uncomfortable. [2]
1810s: Juana Ramírez commands a group of female rebel soldiers during the Venezuelan War of Independence. [citation needed] 1810s: Teriitaria II personally leads armies into battle. [21] [22] 1810, Sweden: Maria Nilsdotter i Ölmeskog dissolves a potential rebel army and are rewarded by the monarch for having prevented a rebellion. [23]