Category:Women in World War II

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English: This is a category for women involved in World War II.

women in World War II

statutes, conditions and activities of women during the war

A member of the ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service) serving with a 3.7-inch anti-aircraft gun battery, December 1942. TR452.jpg

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Subcategories

This category has the following 131 subcategories, out of 131 total.

Nurses in World War II‎ (8 C, 64 F)

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Military women in World War II‎ (31 C, 18 F)

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Central Women's Sniper Training School‎ (4 C, 1 F)
Comfort women of the Empire of Japan in World War II‎ (3 C, 35 F)
Humiliation of female collaborators with Axis occupation‎ (2 C)
Voluntary Aid Detachments‎ (39 F)
Women at work in World War II‎ (9 C, 21 F)
Women in World War II posters from the United States‎ (2 C, 291 F)
Women Pacification Unit Office in Japanese-occupied Beijing‎ (6 F)
Women's Antifascist Front‎ (6 F)

A

Berty Albrecht‎ (4 C, 6 F)
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester‎ (3 C, 1 F)
Ann Atkeison‎ (2 F)
Auxiliaires féminines de l'Armée de terre‎ (3 F)
Micky Axton‎ (1 F)

B

Nancy Lee Baker‎ (2 F)
Nancy Batson Crews‎ (1 F)
Ann A. Bernatitus‎ (9 F)
Hannah Billig‎ (3 F)
Vera Blagojević‎ (3 F)
Betty Tackaberry Blake‎ (6 F)
France Bloch-Sérazin‎ (1 P, 11 F)
Willa Brown‎ (7 F)
Masha Bruskina‎ (20 F)
Marija Bursać‎ (3 F)
Anka Butorac‎ (2 F)

C

Tončka Čeč‎ (4 F)
Jelena Ćetković‎ (2 F)
Pearl Laska Chamberlain‎ (1 F)
Elizabeth Maxine Chambers‎ (2 F)
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg‎ (8 C, 7 F)
Jacqueline Cochran‎ (1 P, 46 F)
Marianne Cohn‎ (8 F)
Patricia Collins Hughes‎ (4 F)
Florence Annie Conybeare‎ (5 F)
Iris C. Cummings Critchell‎ (6 F)
Lettice Curtis‎ (4 F)

D

E

Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom‎ (27 C, 2 P, 27 F)
Mary Ellis (pilot)‎ (1 F)
Barbara Jane Erickson‎ (7 F)

F

Margaret Fairweather‎ (2 F)
Female guards in Nazi concentration camps‎ (16 C, 1 P, 35 F)
Isabel Fenton‎ (2 F)
Cornelia Fort‎ (7 F)
Mona Friedlander‎ (7 F)

G

Elizabeth L. Gardner‎ (3 F)
Betty H. Gillies‎ (4 F)
Valeriya Gnarovskaya‎ (1 C, 1 F)
Hannah Pick-Goslar‎ (3 F)
Haika Grossman‎ (11 F)
Jeannette Guyot‎ (1 C, 1 F)

H

Elaine D. Harmon‎ (4 F)
Florence Harriman‎ (1 C, 64 F)
Bernice Falk Haydu‎ (6 F)

J

Lizika Jančar‎ (2 F)
Jeanne Bohec‎ (2 F)
Vera Jociḱ‎ (1 C, 3 F)
Amy Johnson‎ (6 C, 36 F)

K

Noor Inayat Khan‎ (4 C, 6 F)
Klavdiya Kalugina‎ (empty)
Yelena Kolesova‎ (1 F)
Danila Kumar‎ (2 F)

L

Barbara Lauwers‎ (3 F)
Hazel Ying Lee‎ (8 F)
Joan Michaels Lemley‎ (1 F)
Irina Levchenko‎ (6 F)
Lydia Litvyak‎ (1 C, 4 F)
Nina Lobkovskaya‎ (9 F)
Grace E. Ashwell Lotowycz‎ (1 F)
Lotta Svärd‎ (7 C, 41 F)
Nancy Harkness Love‎ (6 F)

M

N

Mara Naceva‎ (6 F)

O

P

Ibe Palikuqi‎ (6 F)
Tamara Pamyatnykh‎ (empty)
Suzanne Parish‎ (2 F)
Deanie Parrish‎ (7 F)
Ekaterina Petlyuk‎ (empty)
Plaques to four executed Special Operations Executive members (brown plaque), Dachau‎ (4 F)
Platerówki‎ (4 C, 2 F)
Mariya Polivanova‎ (1 C, 6 F)
Zinaida Portnova‎ (3 C, 4 F)
Nada Purić‎ (4 F)
Mary Alice Putnam Vandventer‎ (1 F)

R

Lepa Radić‎ (7 F)
Betty Jo Streff Reed‎ (2 F)
Haviva Reik‎ (2 C, 24 F)
Ola Mildred Rexroat‎ (1 F)
Florence Shutsy Reynolds‎ (2 F)
Lady of Ro‎ (4 F)
Roza Robota‎ (4 F)
Lorraine Zillner Rodgers‎ (2 F)
Sue Ryder‎ (9 C, 6 F)

S

Lidija Šentjurc‎ (5 F)
Evelyn Genevieve Sharp‎ (2 F)
Klavdiya Shulzhenko‎ (2 C, 7 F)
Majda Šilc‎ (5 F)
Helen Wyatt Snapp‎ (4 F)
Marga Spiegel‎ (4 F)
Hannah Szenes‎ (3 C, 43 F)

T

Gerda Taro‎ (3 C, 1 P, 24 F)
Mildred E. Taylor Marshall‎ (2 F)
Marie Anne Tellegen‎ (14 F)
Vida Tomšič‎ (20 F)
Nadezhda Troyan‎ (1 C, 1 F)
Helen Anne Turner‎ (1 F)

U

Nina Ulyanenko‎ (1 F)

V

Marion Pritchard‎ (1 F)

W

Diana Barnato Walker‎ (2 F)
Betty Wall Strohfus‎ (26 F)
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands‎ (15 C, 1 P, 6 F)
Betty Jane Williams‎ (1 F)
Wilda N. Winfield‎ (1 F)
Jane Winstone‎ (1 F)
Women's Royal Naval Service in World War II‎ (3 C, 298 F)
Mary Anna Martin Wyall‎ (2 F)

Y

Violeta Yakova‎ (3 F)

Z

Antonina Zubkova‎ (1 C, 5 F)

Media in category "Women in World War II"

The following 117 files are in this category, out of 117 total.

"Buy War Bonds" - NARA - 513854.jpg 2,147 × 3,000; 882 KB
"Mrs. Lloyd M. Bowers was employed in the Pattern Shop in 1942. US Navy Yard, Mare Island, CA." - NARA - 296886.jpg 3,000 × 2,273; 963 KB
1st Lieutenant Phyllis Hocking adjusts glucose injection apparatus for a GI patient in the 36th Evac. Hospital, Palo... - NARA - 542115.tif 3,000 × 2,429; 6.95 MB
An embroidered handkerchief from Banjica concentration camp.jpg 3,198 × 3,192; 5.02 MB
AnconaGirls.jpg 1,200 × 750; 491 KB
Anni Venturas' Yahrzeit candle 2014.jpg 1,538 × 2,365; 572 KB
Annie Tabor (Oct 1942).jpg 3,603 × 2,700; 2.53 MB
Announcement of Soviet Woman's and Child's Day, Scottish Rite Auditorium, San Francisco, March 19, 1944.jpg 1,625 × 1,075; 1.23 MB
Bens canteen.jpeg 1,447 × 1,322; 855 KB
Vivian Bullwinkel.jpg 1,775 × 2,999; 378 KB
Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1971-083-01, Frankreich, französische Flüchtlinge.jpg 795 × 529; 60 KB
Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1976-112-03A, Internationales Frauentreffen in Berlin.jpg 795 × 544; 76 KB
CarmenVazquezRivera WWII Official Photo.jpg 1,272 × 1,705; 204 KB
RIAN archive 66145 Village fighting.jpg 600 × 385; 90 KB
Celebrating VE Day on Bay Street in Toronto (cropped).jpg 640 × 512; 149 KB
Celebrating VE Day on Bay Street in Toronto.jpg 1,034 × 778; 303 KB
Clayton C Chichester CWGC.jpg 644 × 966; 645 KB
Comfort women crossing a river following soldiers.png 2,922 × 2,405; 9.11 MB
CWAC Cap Badge and Fastener.JPG 1,269 × 1,153; 658 KB
CWAC mechanic, 1944.jpg 510 × 691; 213 KB
Dara Dragišić.jpg 1,392 × 1,939; 361 KB
Darinka Radović.jpg 1,483 × 2,106; 873 KB
Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (13610830474).jpg 4,092 × 2,722; 3.37 MB
Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and Congressman Huffman. (13610486503).jpg 4,256 × 2,832; 4.28 MB
Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, along with members of the San Francisco Bay Area Congressional Delegation, met today with California women who had served in factories during World War II (13610828554).jpg 3,985 × 2,652; 3.25 MB
Dubovyets Valentina Ivanovna.jpg 3,060 × 3,120; 1.08 MB
Edna Nell Doig 1939.png 468 × 430; 268 KB
Eleanor Manning 1946.png 668 × 732; 750 KB
Eloise J. Ellis (Aug 1942).jpg 6,480 × 6,480; 3.73 MB
Ethel Leontine Gabain, Women Welders at Williams & Williams, Chester, 1939-1945.jpg 3,216 × 3,446; 2.14 MB
Ethel Leontine Gabain, Women Workers in the Canteen at Williams & Williams, Chester, 1940s.jpg 4,667 × 3,617; 2.94 MB
Feature. Hospitality House BAnQ P48S1P22962.jpg 960 × 726; 86 KB
Feature. Red Cross Prisonners of War PKGS BAnQ P48S1P07948.jpg 960 × 723; 77 KB
Female air observer in Sweden during world war 2. (31872427897).jpg 577 × 876; 357 KB
Field Marshal Auchinleck inspects Women's Auxiliary Corps (India) 1947.jpg 960 × 660; 99 KB
Field Marshall Auchinleck inspects Women's Auxiliary Corps (India) 1946-1947.jpg 920 × 586; 153 KB
Germany Under Allied Occupation BU6652.jpg 797 × 800; 123 KB
Group of Women Embarking 336-H-17-L8972.jpg 7,934 × 6,446; 4.38 MB
Indian women training for air raid precautions (ARP) duties in Bombay, 1942. IND1492.jpg 2,480 × 1,739; 1.13 MB
Jean Elsie Ferguson.png 420 × 814; 377 KB
Jean Suey Zee Lee.jpg 2,041 × 2,976; 291 KB
Jills in a Jeep, Tyndall Field, Florida WWII (May 5, 1942).jpg 1,399 × 1,116; 342 KB
Joan Stevenson Abbott.png 584 × 828; 594 KB
Kata Pejinović.jpg 413 × 541; 33 KB
Kathleen Best.png 578 × 632; 431 KB
Kz-dachau 1.JPG 3,776 × 2,520; 1.75 MB
Luftbevakningslotta i luftbevakningstorn 1942 (1) (cropped).jpg 3,265 × 3,575; 4.98 MB
Luftbevakningslotta i luftbevakningstorn 1942 (1).jpg 4,000 × 3,575; 5.81 MB
Luftbevakningslotta i luftbevakningstorn 1942 (2).jpg 3,898 × 4,000; 6.2 MB
Luftbevakningslotta i luftbevakningstorn 1942 (3).jpg 3,939 × 4,000; 6.29 MB
Lunchtime at the Vega aircraft plant, Burbank, Calif. A quartet of girl workers. - NARA - 520738.jpg 2,211 × 3,000; 1.88 MB
Margaret Blackwood.png 708 × 1,162; 808 KB
Margaret Irene Anderson 3781001.jpg 507 × 654; 230 KB
Marie-Madeleine Fourcade - fausse carte d'identité.jpg 2,048 × 1,373; 628 KB
Marie-Madeleine Fourcade.jpg 632 × 775; 138 KB
Members of the Maquis in La Tresorerie.jpg 635 × 469; 57 KB
Miss War Worker Beauty Contest 1942.jpg 1,035 × 809; 189 KB
Nada Dimić.jpg 917 × 1,237; 194 KB
Narodni zbor u Slavonskoj Požegi, 1944-1.jpg 1,524 × 1,614; 251 KB
News. C.A.W.C. Canadian Auxiliary Women's Corps BAnQ Vieux-Montréal P48S1P08097.jpg 712 × 960; 139 KB
News. Capt. Fogg's Moral Class BAnQ P48S1P09352.jpg 960 × 722; 55 KB
News. Girls of the Air Force BAnQ P48S1P07085.jpg 960 × 626; 82 KB
News. Navy Girls - Miss Gagnon BAnQ P48S1P09332.jpg 960 × 721; 68 KB
Non met houweel op de schouder, Bestanddeelnr 191-1156.jpg 2,547 × 2,593; 648 KB
North Toronto Gang.jpg 3,984 × 3,222; 1.18 MB
Partizanke na Dinari (1943).jpg 2,069 × 1,425; 289 KB
Conchita Ramos - Mémorial François Verdier.jpg 630 × 768; 172 KB
RCAF Uplands WD Timekeepers.jpg 600 × 455; 45 KB
RCAF WD Recruiting (cropped).jpg 193 × 239; 30 KB
RCAF WD Recruiting.jpg 601 × 800; 210 KB
RCAF WD Uniform display.jpg 600 × 415; 62 KB
RCAF WD Uniform.jpg 600 × 735; 67 KB
Rhodesian Women's Auxiliary Air Service, folding parachute.jpg 1,024 × 844; 682 KB
Rhodesian Women's Military Auxiliary Service, December 1941.jpg 1,200 × 762; 841 KB
RIAN archive 274 Vsevobuch soldiers marching along Moscow streets.jpg 600 × 418; 71 KB
RIAN archive 58861 Before leaving for the front.jpg 600 × 417; 76 KB
RIAN archive 594300 Sanitary post at Leningrad's Narva Gates.jpg 424 × 600; 79 KB
RIAN archive 60236 Soldiers on the march.jpg 600 × 433; 79 KB
RIAN archive 63047 Actress Lyubov Orlova sees off Soviet troops departing to the front.jpg 600 × 405; 71 KB
RIAN archive 669575 Battle of Moscow - Universal Military Training for residents.jpg 396 × 600; 77 KB
EdithRogersBaseball.jpg 913 × 729; 93 KB
Rosa Zelma Huppatz.png 502 × 686; 311 KB
Odette Sansom.jpg 634 × 800; 54 KB
Special Operations Executive (soe) and Special Forces Agents during the Second World War HU3212.jpg 587 × 800; 38 KB
Saskatchewan CWAC Members.png 1,278 × 595; 869 KB
SC 195618-S - Women partisans working on the Castellucio front relax while waiting for their turn to go on patrol. (52598788325).jpg 5,137 × 4,145; 2.26 MB
Sonja Marinković.jpg 1,276 × 1,952; 288 KB
South African women's services on duty in the Middle East 00729v.jpg 1,024 × 811; 310 KB
State Department Secretaries Embarking - DPLA - ba2bfec8b3a1fb658c757780c3eef687.jpg 6,482 × 7,934; 4.55 MB
StateLibQld 1 108304 Women making camouflage nets for the war effort, South Brisbane, Queensland, 1942.jpg 1,000 × 594; 89 KB
Tannenberg Memorial; group of Luftwaffe soldiers and women.jpg 4,076 × 2,656; 2.21 MB
Training to become officers of the Indian Women's Auxiliary Corps.jpg 606 × 800; 79 KB
Victory job (AWM ARTV00332).jpg 882 × 699; 228 KB
Vitka Kempner.jpg 243 × 299; 36 KB
War Office Second World War Official Collection E18586.jpg 800 × 791; 90 KB
WAVES recruitment poster.jpg 825 × 322; 371 KB
WDposter.png 288 × 203; 25 KB
We Can Do It- Women riveters (1942) (cropped).jpg 1,457 × 1,900; 703 KB
Woman seling war bonds 1943.gif 600 × 488; 89 KB
Women's Air Raid Defense.jpg 600 × 493; 91 KB
Ww2women72dpi.jpg 500 × 483; 100 KB
Yousuf-Karsh-Willa-Walker.jpg 1,296 × 980; 79 KB
Zbor AFŽ-a u Drvaru, 1942.jpg 1,387 × 948; 272 KB
Dziewczęta z Pomocniczej Wojskowej Służby Kobiet na Zachodzie (21-250-1).jpg 2,136 × 3,520; 895 KB
Dziewczęta z Pomocniczej Wojskowej Służby Kobiet na Zachodzie (21-250-2).jpg 3,500 × 2,756; 1.21 MB
Dziewczęta z Pomocniczej Wojskowej Służby Kobiet na Zachodzie (21-250-3).jpg 3,500 × 2,745; 1.05 MB
Ewakuacja ludności niemieckiej z terenu Banatu (2-2001).jpg 3,500 × 2,421; 526 KB
Kobieta przy karabinie maszynowym (21-249).jpg 2,969 × 3,520; 1.54 MB
Kobiety radzieckie podczas rozmowy z żołnierzem SS (2-1916).jpg 2,443 × 3,520; 779 KB
Kontrola dokumentów u radzieckich kobiet wiejskich (2-1847).jpg 2,517 × 3,520; 778 KB
Książki przeznaczone dla polskich żołnierzy w Wielkiej Brytanii (21-117-2).jpg 3,500 × 2,819; 1.3 MB
Litewskie kobiety podczas czytania ogłoszeń armii niemieckiej (2-1901).jpg 3,500 × 2,404; 685 KB
Ludność wiejska podczas oglądania przejazdu niemieckich jednostek wojskowych (2-1903).jpg 3,500 × 2,454; 756 KB
Mieszkańcy opuszczają stolicę po kapitulacji powstania warszawskiego. (21-226).jpg 3,500 × 2,698; 933 KB
Powstanie warszawskie (21-218).jpg 3,500 × 2,622; 1.09 MB
Radziecka kobieta z dziećmi (2-1917).jpg 3,500 × 2,539; 715 KB
Radzieckie kobiety podczas gotowania na otwartej przestrzeni (2-1907).jpg 2,525 × 3,520; 745 KB

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