Deputy political instructor V. Smirnov goes on patrol, 1942

Patrol 1942

German Panzer IV Ausf. H with turret and side-skir

A Soviet female medical orderly and her horse, of the 1st Guards Cavalry Corps.
June 1942.
The Red Army included substantial numbers of female soldiers in both combat and logistics roles. 
Some of the most renowned Soviet snipers were women. In the military medical field, many women occupied senior billets that had no Western parallel save nursing.
(Colorised by Paul Kerestes from Romania)
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