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22 lis 2021 · As the only female tank officer in the 1st Guards Tank Army, Samusenko performed heroically during the Battle of Kursk, earning the Order of the Red Star. When her battalion commander fell in a later battle, Samusenko took charge and led her forces out of an ambush.
Aleksandra Grigoryevna Samusenko (Russian: Александра Григорьевна Самусенко, Ukrainian: Олександра Григорівна Самусенко, Oleksandra Hryhorivna Samusenko; 1922 – 3 March 1945) was a Soviet T-34 tank commander and a liaison officer during World War II. [1]
Mariya Vasilyevna Oktyabrskaya (Russian: Мария Васильевна Октябрьская; 16 August 1905 – 15 March 1944) was a Soviet tank driver and mechanic who fought on the Eastern Front against Nazi Germany during World War II. After her husband was killed fighting in 1941, Oktyabrskaya sold her possessions to donate a tank for ...
Out of more than 800,000 Soviet women, who fought in WWII, only several dozen managed the hardest job of becoming tank drivers in the Soviet tank armada. Other difficulties faced by female...
29 paź 2018 · Lieutenant General Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov. Photo: Mil.ru / CC BY 4.0. Amazingly, for almost three years, the crew of the tank on which Raschupkina fought did not suspect that the person they called Sasha-tomboy a woman. However, a comrade accidentally discovered her secret at the end of the war.
Women frequently served as medics and communication personnel, as well – in small numbers – as machine gunners, political officers, tank drivers, and in other parts of the infantry. Manshuk Mametova was a machine gunner from Kazakhstan and was the first Asian woman to receive the title Hero of the Soviet Union.
A female look at war: 10 photos taken by Soviet women during WWII. The daily lives of soldiers, captured Nazi prisoners and the liberation of concentration camps, as seen by women at war. It...
