WWII in HD — Inside WWII — History.com Interactive Games, Maps and Timelines. WWII in HD — Inside WWII — History.com Interactive Games, Maps and Timelines. WWII in HD — Inside WWII — History.com Interactive Games, Maps and Timelines. Yevdokiya Zavaliy: the Heroine of WWII. The life story and military feats of an incredible woman, Yevdokiya Zavaliy, the only female commander of the platoon of marines during WWII. Yevdokiya Zavaliy was born on May 28, 1926 in a small village located in the Nikolayev Region, Ukraine.
Before the war, she worked on a farm. That’s how the war began for her. “It was the 25th of July. I suddenly saw 4 black spots in the sky over our village and understood these were landing troops! After a terrible roar the enemy planes started bombing. We rushed to our houses. When the last military unit left our village, I persuaded the commander to take me with him. Don’t be surprised, my grandmother was a healer and could predict the future.
The unit which Yevdokiya Zavaliy joined was the cavalry regiment. In the regiment, she served as a nurse. This regiment became the place of Yevdokiya’s transformation into a man. After Yevdokiya Nikolayevna captured a German officer, she was appointed the commander of a reconnaissance squad. Siege of Petersburg: The City and Citizens Were Impacted from the Start. The Reverend John Miller ascended the pulpit at the second Presbyterian Church in Petersburg, Virginia, one Sunday in June 1864 and began a prayer. 'Almighty Father we are assembled to worship Thee in the presence of our enemies, had just passed his lips when a Federal shell crashed through the wall of the sanctuary. Life for the reverend and his flock had changed forever. Before the war, and before the war literally fell into their laps, the members of Second Presbyterian and their fellow Petersburgers knew life in a prosperous, cosmopolitan city that was just as sophisticated as its neighbor Richmond.
Petersburg boasted a municipal water system, four volunteer fire companies, gas-fueled streetlights, and brick sidewalks. Some of the grocers and many of the employees of the railroad and tobacco factories were free blacks. By 1861, Petersburg was home to the largest population of freedmen in the state of Virginia — 3,644. In June 1864, the situation got worse. Russian International News Agency Releases 100 Previously Unseen World War II Images. Children take shelter drawing an air raid, near Minsk, 1941, part of a largely unseen Russian archive. Now, the Russian International News Agency has an enormous archive of photographs spanning many decades, many of which have never been seen before. It has recently committed to making part of this archive open to the public and to this end has started a project known as Eternal Values.
Above, citizens of Leningrad leave their houses after a particularly brutal bombing raid in 1942. This year the first batch (featuring Russia during the Second World War) was uploaded to Wikimedia Commons for the world to share. A mechanic inspects a plane while a young soldier uses a stencil to add another kill star to its side, taken on the southwestern front in 1942. September 1941 and as the war progresses, universal conscription means that women as well as men must undergo military training.
April 1942 and Leningrad is under siege. Yet despite the siege there must be some light hearted moments. Pearl Harbor, Memorials, Monuments, Museums, Honolulu, Hawaii.