propaganda warned women in the auxiliary forces not to becomeflintenweiber, or “gun women,” a derisive term for Soviet women fighters. In the last, desperate months of the conflict, Hitler gave in and created an experimental women’s infantry battalion, but the war ended before it could ...
World War IFemale Red Cross volunteers in Berlin assembling parcels containing woolen puttees for German soldiers. The British blockade had limited the availability of leather in Germany, and the knee-high jackboots traditionally worn by German infantry were replaced with ankle boots and puttees. ...
she was not permitted to fly, but was assigned to the U.S. Army Accessions Command, to assist with recruiting and instruction. Law trained with the 38th Infantry Division at Camp Shelby, Mississippi. She served in Europe and held
He was most famous for his World War II cartoons depicting American soldiers, as represented by the archetypal characters Willie and Joe, two weary and bedraggled infantry troopers who stoically endure the difficulties and dangers of duty in the field. His cartoons were popular with soldiers ...
Arkansas Congressman Tom Cotton told Laura Ingraham on her radio show Tuesday that military women are physically unfit to serve in combat due to their "nature." Cotton, a former Army infantry officer in Iraq and Afghanistan, explained that female soldiers should limit their military duties to non...
a 1942 Rutgers graduate fresh out of infantry school at Fort Benning. Eager to command troops, Zubko later figured he got this desk job because he knew Russian. He did not enjoy it. He and Grabeel were seated in one corner of a room and told to speak only in whispers. The other occup...
Union Nurse, Soldier and Spy Offended by the idea of slavery, Sarah Emma Edmonds enlisted in the Second Michigan Infantry as Frank Thompson on May 25, 1861, when the first call for volunteers came from President Abraham Lincoln. She was given the rank of Private, and was assigned as a mal...
Sowers (of Mount Pleasant, Frederick County, Virginia), John Toler (concerning the 122nd infantry regiment of Virginia Militia), Lucy (Lyons) Turner (bears letter of Mary E. B. (Turner) Allibone to Henry Smith Turner [of Wheatland, Jefferson County, Vir- ginia (now West Virginia) ...
After thinking for it for around an hour, her commanding office agreed to send her back into the infantry. Milunka Savitch with medal. srpskidespot.org.yu In 1914, while World War I was still in its infancy, Savić was ordered her first Karađorđe Star with Swords after the Battle...
BESIDE THE SEASIDE John Grierson’s place in history as a pioneer of British (Scottish) documentary film-making, beginning at the end of the 1920s, is assured. In fact, he came up with the very word “documentary”, using it to describe his friend Robert Flaherty’sMoana(However, his...