Women in the Fight

Women Firefighters Douse Flames at Pearl Harbor

Army of 'Land Girls' Passes Royal Muster

Back to the Land

She's a Lumberjack ... er, Lumberjill ... and She's OK

A Real-Life Rosie the Riveter Welds Armor for the Troops

A Wren Takes Aim

Female Italian Resistance Fighters Take a Cigarette Break

A Finnish Women's Army Member

Marlene and the Boys: The Decent Thing to Do

Pauline Gower Becomes England's First Female Military Pilot

Looking Up

Radio Location

Nancy Nesbit, Pilot Trainee

LIFE Cover, July 19, 1943

A WAVE Takes Target Practice

An ATS Servicewoman at a British Anti-Aircraft Facility

British Women Train During Action on Gibraltar

Women's Air Corps

A Member of America's Women's Air Corps (WACs)

Clay Pigeon Pilots

Gun Corps

Chinese Army Women Learn Riflery

Rescued

Allies

Co-Ed Russian Soldiers Celebrate Victory With American Allies

China's First Lady Reads the Good News of V-J Day

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