Red Corporal Yelizaveta Feodorovna Mironova, 255th Marine Brigade Black Sea Fleet of Novorossiysk, was a teenage sniper.
Corporal Yelizaveta Feodorovna Mironova
Posts Tagged: 1940s
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Navy Fav’s
“Sailors, at the constant mercy of the elements, often feel the need for religious images on their bodies to appease the angry powers that caused storms and drowning far from home.”
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Brave Noor-Un-Nisa Inayat Khan
Noor Inayat Khan was the first female radio operator to be sent into occupied France during WWII.
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Italian Partisans, WWII
Resistenza partigiana, Partisan Resistance, were pro-Allied Italians during WWII.
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Jango
The cover for the April 26, 1943 issue of LIFE featured “Jango” Helen Almy being capped after successfully completing junior nurses aide project operating in Washington’s Doctor’s Hospital.
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Heidelberg USA
In the late 1940s American girls (and boys) spice up Heidelberg, Germany in an unruly mix of saddle shoes and lederhosen.
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Hey Shorty!
One young Sullivan High School illustrator set out to draw every senior in the class of 1946.
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Andrea Ski
Meet the 15 year old ski prodigy Andrea Mead Lawrence.
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Rison Family Pictures
A collection of lovingly worn portraits and snapshots from the Rison Family Photograph collection.
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Pattern Fashion
Back in the day most teenage girls knew how to sew (and well).