"War does not have a female face" - the history of the Second World War refuted this truth. If before a woman with weapons in her hands was an exception to the rule, a rare phenomenon, a legend like Jeanne d'Arc or Nadezhda Durova, then during the Great Patriotic War 800 thousand women served in the Red Army voluntarily and by conscription, of which over 150 thousand were awarded military orders and medals, 86 became Heroes of the Soviet Union, and three - full holders of the Order of Glory. True, the attitude towards women-order bearers was, to put it mildly, ambiguous, and the word "front-line" after the war became almost offensive ("We were even told: "What deserved their awards, hang them there." Therefore, at first they did not want to wear either orders or medals"). But it's one thing for PPJ, and quite another - graduates of the Central Women's School of Sniper Training, pilots of three women's air regiments, fighters of a separate female volunteer rifle brigade, women anti-aircraft gunners, medical instructors, partisans, even reconnaissance platoon commanders (there was such a thing!).