Tag: Women in Combat
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The Women of the British SOE
Britain sent women behind enemy lines because Nazi sexism made them invisible. A man of fighting age was a target. A woman with a shopping basket was furniture.
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Anita Garibaldi
Anita Garibaldi rode out of an enemy encirclement twelve days after giving birth, with the infant on her saddle. A bullet went through her hat.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt: The First Lady Who Refused to Pour the Tea In 1942, a twenty-five-year-old woman with 309 confirmed kills walked into the White House, and the First Lady of the United States looked at her, took her measure, and thought: I want to take you on a road trip. Hold that image. We are…
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Lyudmila Pavlichenko
They Called Her “Lady Death” Bad-Ass Women in History — Lyudmila Pavlichenko, 1916–1974 309 Confirmed Kills • Undefeated • Unsilenced She had 309 confirmed kills. The Nazis put a bounty on her head. American journalists asked her about her nail polish. Kyiv → Odessa → Sevastopol • 1941–1942 • Bad-Ass Women in History Introduction Here…