women during wartime

history related blog focused on women

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Andrijana, Lejla and Svetlana as U.N interpreters in Bosnia 1992

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A top sniper codenamed “Strijela” (Arrow) loads her sniper rifle in a safe room in Sarajevo, Tuesday, June 30, 1992. Serb girl of 20 years,  fighting with the Bosnian army as an anti-sniper sniper. As the daughter of a Sarajevo police officer before the war, she was involved in archery, with the ambition to win a place in the national team. Although, most of her targets were aggressor snipers, she was often tasked with eliminating machine gun nests or supporting Bosnian soldiers in their advance with their fire. Asked how she commented that she was a Serb woman who killed Serbs, she replied: “This is the only city I have, the only city in my life. I feel a responsibility to defend Sarajevo. ”

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A Bosnian girl, holding an AK-47 rifle smokes a cigarette as she waits for a funeral service at Sarajevo’s Lion’s cemetery in 1992.

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Girls making petrol bombs during the Battle of the Bogside, Ireland, 1969.

Two Armenian counter-militias fighting the Armenian genocide perpetrated by the aturkish Ottomans, 1915

Leap Radić hanged by Nazis for being a Yugoslavian Partisan during WW II, 8.02.1943.

Annie Oakley, 1899

An old Armenian woman defends her house, 1990.

Rosa Parks, mugshot after being arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white passenger, 1955.

Women protesting forced Hijab days after the revolution, Iran 1979. Photograph by Hengameh Golestan

Palestinian fighter Leila Khaled poses with her weapon and grandfather in 1969. She became a vocal fighter often speaking in Europe against the Palestinian-Israeli peace process.

Four women from Maryland chased the men down and surrendered them. The men were terrorising the neighbourhood for several weeks. 1950

Girls at school in USA protesting the school dress code. 1940.

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WAC poster

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WLA poster

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Diana Barnato Walker climbing into the cockpit of a Spitfire while serving with the Air Transport Auxiliary

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The first pilots of the ATA Womens' Section pilots walking past newly-completed De Havilland Tiger Moths awaiting delivery to their units at Hatfield, Hertfordshire.

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Air Transport Auxiliary women in the UK

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WAC aircraft mechanic Private Dorothy Bumstead with B-17

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Col. Oveta Culp Hobby (right), first commanding officer of the Women’s Army Corps, talks with Auxiliary Margaret Peterson and Capt. Elizabeth Gilbert at Mitchel Field in New York, 1943.

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Women from all fields have joined the production army. Miss Grace Weaver, a civil service worker at the Naval Air Base in Corpus Christi, Texas, and a school teacher before the war, is doing her part for victory along with her brother who is a flying instructor in the Army.

Miss Weaver paints the American insignia on repaired Navy plane wings. August 1942.

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Navy nurse Vera DeLollis hands a cup of water to Hal Dewart in one of the seven wards aboard the hospital ship USS Bountiful (AH-9), while CPhM. J.H. Martin relaxes below.

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WAVES Specialist (Teacher) Katherine Dillon monitoring a radio range chart, while serving as a Link trainer instructor at Naval Air Station, St. Louis, Missouri, United States, 3 Nov 1943.

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Nurses having a smoke in 1947

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Two nurses riding on a motorcycle, date unknown.

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A WAAF electrician repairing the switches on the engines panel in a Handley Page Halifax at a Bomber Command station.

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