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Russia

Ukraine

Kosovo

IDF

Brazil with Mi-35

YPJ

Ukraine

Germany

WASPs with B-24

RCAF Corporal Richardson

IDF

Ukraine

Russian Paratrooper Yulia Kharlamova

IDF

USN Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician 1st Class Petty Officer Nichole Robinette

IDF

A-10 Thunderbolt II pilot, Lt. Col. Martha McSally. She later became a US Senator.

Cpl Alexandra Roy, 430 Tactical Helicopter Squadron door gunner onboard CH-146 Griffon

West Indian Detachment ATS

Roza Shanina, Soviet Sniper with 59 kills

Soviet Po-2 pilot Natalya Meklin

US Air Force security

Ukraine

Canadian YPJ volunteer Hanna Bohman

United Kingdom

Poland

US Navy sailor aboard USS Blue Ridge (LCC-19)

IDF

Polish MiG-29 pilot Lt. Katarzyna Tomiak-Siemieniewic

Polish ATA pilot Stefania Cecylia Wojtulanis-Karpińska with Spitfire

Chile

IDF

Serbia

US Coast Guard SPARs, WWII

Ukraine

IDF

US Army Helicopter Pilot

WASP mechanics work on a PT-22 trainer

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IDF

US Army

Thailand

IDF Dog Handler

France

Norway

Sweden

Lithuania

WASPs with B-29 Superfortress

Pauline Gower Commandant of the Air Transport Auxiliary Womens’ Section in the cockpit of a de Havilland Tiger Moth

USAF

Ukraine

Ukraine

Australia

Australia

U.S. Army

Switzerland

U.S. Army Pfc. Tess Sandoval_25th Combat Aviation Brigade, located on Wheeler Army Airfield, Hawaii, Aug. 25, 2019

IDF

Roza Shanina, Soviet Sniper with 59 kills

WAC Mary Scarborough inside a wrecked Japanese Betty bomber, Peleliu

U.S. Navy WAVES servicing the R-1830 engine of a PBY at NAS Corpus Christi, 1942

US Navy Master At Arms Rachel Higuera

Poland

Swedish soldier with Carl Gustav rocket launcher

IDF

Poland

US Marine with M 777 Howitzer

Mexico

LCOL Shawna Kimbrell USAF F-16 pilot

19 year old Soviet sniper Roza Shanina, 59 confirmed kills

Ukraine

IDF

Germany

US Navy WAVE

Russia

IDF

Anastasia Apaseikina Russian Mi8 Pilot

Test pilots Dorothy Dodd Eppstein, Hellen Skjersaa Hansen, Doris Burmester Nathan and Elizabeth Chadwick Dressler front of a B-25 medium bomber.

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USAF

Russian Cadet Victoria Vyacheslavovna with Draganov

Sweden

IDF Karakal Battalion

Brazil

YPJ

Ukraine

Norway

ATS

War Correspondent Lee Miller

Norway

Ukraine

Ukraine

Ukraine

Ukraine

IDF

Norway

Lt. Col. Cheryl Buehn, 71st Fighter Training Squadron T-38A Talon instructor pilot

USAF A-10

Army Nurse unloading Jerry cans from a C-47 at Rheims, France, 1944

Mimi Lindstrom-Segall, WASP pilot

WASP pilot Lillian Yonally

US Air Force

German AFV with MG 3

Russian Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School

Norway

IDF

Kurdish YPJ sniper team

Russian Paratrooper

USAF Capt. Sara “Shot” Ferrro, 100th FS F-16 pilot

WASPS, their “Fifinella” logo was designed by Walt Disney.

Russia

Chinese People’s Liberation Army

Estonia

WASPs Barbara London and Evelyn Sharp with P-51B Mustang

IDF

IDF

Polish Soldier with MRAP

WASP Pilots training on AT-6 Texan at Sweetwater

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IDF

MSgt. Kaitlin Shaeffer 307th Bomb Wing

Croatia

IDF

RAN Helo Pilot Kate Munari

Serbia

Sweden

Canada

WREN Dispatch Rider

WASP Mimi Lindstrom-Segall

Brazil

IDF

Russia

Ukraine

IDF

AC-130 Airman Mary Howe, 4th Special Operations Squadron

RCAF Pilot

CAPT Mariya Dlina HSU, Soviet Pe-2 Pilot

Soviet Il-2 Pilot Anna Timofeeva Egorova

WAAF hauling bombs at RAF Mindenhall

Finland

Norway

US Army

Ukraine

Ukraine

Russia

Sweden

Tally Case, South Carolina ANG F-16 pilot

Women’s Reserve Ambulance Corps, June 1916

Women Urgently Wanted for the WAAC

Serbia

Israel

China

WAVE exits a 5″/38 Gun Mount aboard the Battleship USS Missouri (BB-63)

Swedish soldier in Afghanistan

IDF

IDF

WASPs with AT-6 Texan

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Romainia

Norway

Danish Navy

IDF

Italy

YPJ

Norway

Norwegian border guard

WAVE Aviation Machinist Mates work on C-54

4.2 inch mortar team

U.S. Army

Czech Republic

IDF

Canada

Russia

Norway

Aerial Gunner Airman 1st class Natasha Libby 66th Rescue Squadron HH-60 Pave Hawk (130620-F-AQ406-114)

Sergeant Joan Mortimer, Flight Officer Elspeth Henderson, and Sergeant Helen Turner, Fighter Command Headquarters, Uxbridge, 01SEP40. Awarded Military Medal (IWM)

USMC

Finnish aircraft spotter Lotta Eillen Kiuru, Lahdenpohja, 11July42 (SA-Kuva)

IDF

US Navy sailor of VAW-125 works on the nosewheel of an E-2 Hawkeye.

Ukraine

IDF

US Air Force

IDF

Belgium

USAF exchange pilot Capt. Michelle Ruehl boarding a US Navy F/A-18 Hornet

ATS

Russian Police

Latvia

Italy

ATF Pilots with Hurricane

Kurdish YPJ

South Korea

IDF

WASP Pilot Nancy Nesbit in an AT-6 Texan

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IDF

South Korea

Germany

IDF

CAPT Jammie Jamieson F-22A

U.S. Army 1st Lt. Lauren Martinez, a tank platoon leader with Alpha Company “Orphans,” 2nd Battalion, 34th Armored Regiment, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division

Denmark

YPJ

WASP Ruth Dailey in cockpit of P-38 Lightning

Australian AWAS with Thompson

USAF

USN EOD

Spain

Serbia

IDF

USAF Airman Vanessa Dobos HH-60G Pave Hawk with M134 Minigun

U.S. Army

USN WAVE mechanic works on an N3N

WACS, 15th AF

WACS

IDF

France

US Navy Officer conns her ship from the bridge wing, JMSDF Fuyuzuki (DD-118) in the background

Italian Army B1 Centauro Tank Destroyer

Italian Helicopter pilot Carla Angelucci

Kurdish YPJ

IDF

USAF F-35 pilot Col. Gina “Torch” Sabric, CO of the 419th FW, Hill, AFB

WAC SGT. Eleanora L. Johnson, 1944

IDF

Russian Paratrooper Yulia Kharlamov

IDF

Royal Navy WREN WWII

IDF

Australian Aircrew with CH-47

WASP with P-38 Lightning, P-51 Mustang in the background

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Naval Officer

French Medic

Britain

IDF

Uruguayan A-37 Pilot Maria Etcheverry

YPJ

Norwegian Navy

1LT Jessica Pauley with Bradley

WRENs with Supermarine Walrus (IWM)

Donna Tobias, USN Diver 1975

Israeli Navy

Ukraine

Madeline Swegle, LTJG USN

U.S. Army

IDF

IDF

USAF SSGT Erin McLoughlin C-130 Loadmaster

Rozalia Wróbel from Wołkowysk in Galicia, Polish Women’s Auxiliary Service (IWM)

Spanish Civil War Republican Fighters

Second Officer Helen Harrison, ATA, Nov. 1942. During the war in April 1942, at age 32 Helen was the only Canadian recruited by Jackie Cochran for the British Air Transport Auxiliary where she served until March 1944.

IDF

Royal Australian Navy Boatswains Mate Stephanie Went, HMAS Toowoomba (FFH-156)

Ukraine

Chinese soldier with Norinco QBZ-95

Royal Australian Navy pilot Natalie Davies

Kurdish YPJ

Columbia

USAF A-10 Warthog pilot Martha McSally

US Navy Nurse Jane Kendeigh on Okinawa, February 1945

Air National Guard Major Nicole Mitchell, her civilian job is a TV news meteorologist

USAF CAPT Jennie Swiechowicz, 393 BG B-2 Spirit Pilot

IDF with Merkava MBT

WRAF of WWI

IDF

RAF Pilot

Romania

WASPs with B-17

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IDF

Sweden

Russia

IDF

US Army pilot Paige Ziegler with CH-47 Chinook

Ukraine

Denmark

YPJ

WREN Mechanic

Detroit National League for Womens’ Service WWI

U.S. Army

Italy

Russia

Serbia

Czech Republic

U.S. Army AH-64 Apache

IDF

Resistance Fighter, Hungarian Uprising 1956 with PPsH

Royal Navy WRENS boat crew. (IWM)

ATS anti-aircraft gun crew (IWM)

IDF

Ukraine

IDF

US Air Force

Norway

British Air Trooper Lauren Morgan with AH-64 Apache Longbow

Russia

U.S. Army Captain Elizabeth McNamara with AH-64 Apache, Iraq 2011

First Aid Nursing Yeomanry dispatch riders

Ukraine

Portugal

IDF

ATA Pilot Maureen Dunlop with Royal Navy Fairey Barracuda

IDF

Norway

Indian Pilots with MiG-21

Nancy Harkness Love in the cockpit in 1928, she would lead the WASPs in WWII

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Ukraine

British dog handler Afghanistan

Airman Samantha Allred, 39th Security Forces Squadron, peers down the barrel of a M240B machine gun while working patrol on the flight line, Mar. 9, 2009, Incirlik Air Base, Turkey. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Benjamin Wilson, 39th Air Base Wing public affairs)

IDF

USMC Flight Crew

YPJ

Norway

Latvia

Navy WAVEs

ATS hauling bombs to Lancaster

IDF

IDF

USAF Minnesota AFR LT Alicia Makoutz C-130 Pilot

IDF

U.S. Navy Sailor in Damage Control Gear

USAF Capt. Victoria Snow, HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter pilot assigned to the 33rd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron (180313-F-OH871-1009)

Turkish UH-60 Pilot

Soviet Snipers WWII

WAAF radar operator Denise Miley, May 1945 (IWM)

ATS AAA Range Finder Operator (IWM)

Serbia

Russia

Poland

United Kingdom

Danish F-16 pilot Line Bonde

Kurdish YPJ

Russia

South Carolina ANG F-16

Royal Norwegian Navy sailors train with Thompson SMG

Romania, sign on the building reads “Honor is Your Motto”

Russia

Ukrainian with Druganov sniper rifle

ATS Major Kay Summersby, General Eisenhower’s driver and assistant

Poland

Finland

Sweden

Nancy Love and Betty Gillies, founders of the WASPs

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IDF

Norway

Norway

IDF

F-16 Pilot Julie “Disco” Moore

Poland

Sweden

YPJ

WAVES aviation metalsmith Barbara Stroud NAS Jacksonville 1943

WAAF Mechanic works on a Mosquito

Columbian Navy

Russia

IDF

U.S. Army

IDF Sniper

USMC Sea Cobra

AH-64 Apache Longbow

WRENS WWII

WRENS Motor Transport Driver (IWM)

WACS

IDF

Ukraine

Ukraine

Norway

Australia

CAPT Kim Campbell inspects damage to her A-10 Warthog, Operation Iraqi Freedom 2003

IDF

Swiss F/A-18 pilot

WASP with P-38 Lightning

Major Charity Adams inspects WACs of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion in Birmingham, England, February 1945 (National Archives via Jim Pitts)

Russia

IDF

Serbia

ATA Pilot Maureen Dunlap in a Spitfire

Russia

IDF

Finland

WASPs

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