Women at War

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File:"Willa Beatrice Brown, a 31-year-old Negro American, serves her country by training pilots for the U.S. Army Air Forces. - NARA - 535717.tif - Wikimedia Commons
WWII -- original caption: "Willa Beatrice Brown, a 31-year-old Negro American, serves her country by training pilots for the U.S. Army Air Forces. She is the first Negro woman to receive a commission as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Civil Air Patrol."
Tales of War
A little Czech girl from Praha plays with the captain of a tank unit after the liberation of the city.
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A female air-warden carries a little girl after she had been rescued from her bombed home. England, The Second World War.
French women partisan - French Forces | Gallery
French Resistance - 1944
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Partisan girl from Epirus, Greece, c.1941-1944. Costas Balafas
Gallery of Dangerous Women
A dangerous woman in the most literal sense, Senior Sergeant Roza Shanina was a sniper in the WWII Soviet Army. She racked up at least 54 kills of German soldiers before her death from wounds at age 20. She served part of the time in an all-woman sniper unit. Before the war she worked as a kindergarten teacher.
Best Soviet Female Snipers Of WWII - English Russia
During WWII, Hitler forbid women (with some limited exceptions) from serving in the military and relegated them to strictly domestic roles. Contrast with the Soviet Red Army which had over 2,000 women snipers.
Leningrad - Colorizations By Users | Gallery
Famous WWII Russian sniper Kyra Petrovskaya. She kicked Nazi butt. Biddy Craft