Women warriors of the Great Patriotic War (28 photos)

Category: Nostalgia, PEGI 0+
28 January 2009

Snipers: Faina Yakimova, Roza Shanina, Lidiya Volodina


Hero of the Soviet Union Natalya Fedorovna Meklin (Kravtsova).

Rosa Shanina. 54 destroyed enemies.

Hero of the Soviet Union Lydia Vladimirovna Litvyak. The most successful female fighter of World War II. She has 14 enemy aircraft shot down.

Hero of the Soviet Union Lyudmila Pavlichenko. The most productive female sniper - 309 killed [incl. 36 snipers].

Maria Dolina, deputy squadron commander, Hero of the Soviet Union.

Alexandra Samusenko, commander of a tank battalion.

Elizaveta Mironova, 34 Germans are known to have been killed by her.

Anti-aircraft gunner Elena Ivanova.

Nurse A. Kozlova feeds the wounded Major V. Nogin in hospital No. 2-386.

Soviet nurses bandage a lightly wounded captured SS man.

Raya Surnachevskaya

Ekaterina Budanova, 11 enemy aircraft shot down.

Commander Maria Dolina (left) and navigator Galina Dzhunkovskaya

Soviet women pilots.

Heroes of the Soviet Union Marina Chechneva and Ekaterina Ryabova






From left to right: Tamara Pamyatnykh, Rita Kokina, Evgenia Borak, Irina Favorskaya

"A gift to the invaders." Ekaterina Terekhova adds ammunition.

Lyudimila Popova, PE-2 navigator

Women partisans in liberated Minsk, 1944.

Tamara Pamyatnykh and Galina Burdina after the night battle.

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