So I know this blog is quickly becoming a women of WWII blog, but there are just so many amazing, badass, well-documented gal heroes from this era that I simply cannot resist the temptation to cover more (sorry not sorry).[…]
Category: Woman Warriors
The White Mouse: Nancy Wake
This badass French Resistance spy killed Nazis with her bare hands, guided hundreds of wounded Allied soldiers out of occupied French territory to safety, and played a crucial role in smuggling information back and forth between the Allied forces and the[…]
The Warrior Queen Boudica
Cassius Dio, the ancient Roman historian, described the ancient Celtic warrior queen Boudica as being “in appearance most terrifying, in the glance of her eye most fierce, and her voice was harsh: a great mass of the tawniest hair fell to[…]
The Night Witches
The 588th Soviet night bomber regiment of World War II completed over 30,000 missions over the course of four years, dropped 23,000 tons of bombs, and became so feared by Nazi forces that anyone who managed the difficult feat of[…]