A female IRA fighter armed with an AR-18 taking aim at Pro-British troops during skirmishes.
County Antrim, Northern Ireland, 1972.
by PHILIP JONES GRIFFITHS
A member of the all-female fighting unit of the Free Syrian Army
by SEBASTIANO TOMADA PICCOLOMINI.
Yaqui, Soldadera de Sonora Mexico 1915.
Soldadera.
Soldadera.
Soldaderas.
Soldaderas.
Soldaderas.
Soldaderas.
Soldaderas.
Soldaderas.
Soldaderas.
Soldaderas.
Soldadera.
Soldadera.
Soldaderas.
Soldaderas.
Soldaderas.
Soldadera.
Soldaderas.
This photograph shows Zampia Manousaka, on the left, along with one her friends in the village of Melidoni. These women successfully confronted and deterred a detachment of Communist guerillas as they attempted take control of the village during the Greek civil war (1944-1945 and 1946-1949).
This photo was taken at an unknown later date.
Little known to the outside world, although they have been fighting fascist regimes since 1927, the Italian "Maquis" carry on their battle for freedom under the most hazardous conditions. Germans and fascist Italians are targets for their guns; and the icy, eternally snow-clad peaks of the French-Italian border are their battlefield. This school teacher of the Valley of Aosta fights side-by-side with her husband in the "White Patrol" above the pass of Little Saint Bernard in Italy, on January 4, 1945.
The first "Women Guerrilla" corps has just been formed in the Philippines and Filipino women,
trained in their local women's auxiliary service, are seen here hard at work practicing on November 8, 1941, at a rifle range in Manila.`
Japanese girls receiving shooting training during school in the 1930s
' Amazons of the Caucasus' , Western Armenia , 1895.
Women employees midland bank london meet once a week to learn rifle shooting.(1942)
A member of the Australian Women's Army Service using a Thompson.
These Northwestern University girls brave freezing weather to go through a Home Guard rifle drill on the campus in Evanston, Illinois on January 11, 1942.
From left to right are: Jeanne Paul, age 18, of Oak Park, Illinois,; Virginia Paisley, 18, of Lakewood, Ohio; Marian Walsh, 19, also from Lakewood; Sarah Robinson, 20, of Jonesboro, Arkansas, Elizabeth Cooper, 17, of Chicago; Harriet Ginsberg, 17.
Women's rifle team, Howard University, Washington DC, 1937.
Scurlock Studio Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
Riflery in Hearst Gym Basement. Late 1940’s or early 1950’s.
The rifle range was converted in the 1980’s to the Undergraduate Anthropology Laboratories.
Women's rifle team in front of cannon, The University of Iowa, October 27, 1936. Frederick Kent Collection of Iowa City Town and Campus Scenes, U. of Iowa Archives.
“Mrs. Albert F. Walker of this town has been declared 1937 women’s skeet shooting champion of the country by the National Skeet Shooting Association. The Association has released the averages on which the ratings were based, but one day last year at the Kenwood skeet club, Mrs. Walker set the women’s record fall with 99×100 (skeet for 99 birds out of a possible 100). In addition to her national title, she outranks both men and women shooters in the District of Columbia and Maryland.”
April 6, 1939. "Co-ed queen of rifle shooters. Jean Yocum, George Washington University co-ed, has won the Women's Individual Intercollegiate Rifle Championship, according to the National Rifle Association. Her score of 496 out of a possible 500 gave the individual title to a G.W. girl for the first time since 1929. Although this is only Miss Yocum's second year of shooting, she has maintained an average of 99 out of a possible 100 in all matches."
Nancy Wake, French Maquis. SOE operative. and all around Gestapo bane.once killed an SS officer with her bare hands. she was the most decorated Allied woman of WWII.
World War II resistant woman fighter - Paris,1940s
Soldadera.
Soldaderas.
This photo was taken at an unknown later date.
Little known to the outside world, although they have been fighting fascist regimes since 1927, the Italian "Maquis" carry on their battle for freedom under the most hazardous conditions. Germans and fascist Italians are targets for their guns; and the icy, eternally snow-clad peaks of the French-Italian border are their battlefield. This school teacher of the Valley of Aosta fights side-by-side with her husband in the "White Patrol" above the pass of Little Saint Bernard in Italy, on January 4, 1945.
trained in their local women's auxiliary service, are seen here hard at work practicing on November 8, 1941, at a rifle range in Manila.`
Japanese girls receiving shooting training during school in the 1930s
From left to right are: Jeanne Paul, age 18, of Oak Park, Illinois,; Virginia Paisley, 18, of Lakewood, Ohio; Marian Walsh, 19, also from Lakewood; Sarah Robinson, 20, of Jonesboro, Arkansas, Elizabeth Cooper, 17, of Chicago; Harriet Ginsberg, 17.
Scurlock Studio Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
The rifle range was converted in the 1980’s to the Undergraduate Anthropology Laboratories.
Nancy Wake, French Maquis. SOE operative. and all around Gestapo bane.once killed an SS officer with her bare hands. she was the most decorated Allied woman of WWII.
World War II resistant woman fighter - Paris,1940s
No hay comentarios:
Publicar un comentario