Only write bout famous black heroes ok, maybe someone lile McArthur ok.
ill be damned. McArthur was black. :roll:
the russians had ladies in there army
yes true…i think they the russians had the first female soilders
You’ve not heard of Jeanne D’Arc, Boadicea or the Amazons then?
im a ww2 buff
i know little about other wars
i didt think women fight be4 ww2
but since u know all about all wars
u r probely right
Spanish Civil War poster
Soviet Poster
US Poster
Best and Warm Regards
Adrian Wainer
Not the first but before Soviets and much more pretty IMHO!
Una Soldadera de la revolution Mexicana
Viva Zapata
Adrian Wainer
And what year was that?
circa 1910 to 1919/20 probably
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Revolution
Best and Warm Regards
Adrian Wainer
She could be just a message girl?
She’s carrying an awfully big sword for a messenger!
She could just have it too protect herself if she got caught…just my opinion.
It is likley that she is a soilder,i was thinking out loud.
Anyways why cant you rude too me like Rising Sun is.:shock:
:mrgreen: To protect her bandoleer?
Beate Uhse, lol. What a change in profession…
Assiduous and inventive woman 
„Artikel für die Ehehygiene“ :mrgreen:
she could be wearing it for fashion;)
Hey D502 are uyou a Dudette like i am
That East German workers found the remains can be explained very easily:
Up to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the entire local railway system in Berlin (both east and West) belonged to the Reichsbahn, which was administered by East Berlin. Acc. to Allied rule, the tracks running in West Berlin were actually East German territory, so East German workers were used by the Reichsbahn for maintenance (though after the wall was built in 1961, the west Berliners boycotted the local commuter railway, the S-Bahn, system in favour of the purely West Berlin underground trains).
The East german workers operating in West Berlin were certainly especially vetted by the East German Stasi intelligence service and had family members left in the East as hostages.
Jan
Since nobody seemed to have mentioned her:
JOSEPHINE BAKER (3.June 1903 in St. Louis, Missouri - 12.April 1975 in Paris, France)
Black American dancer, movie actress, comedian and singer, who became a celebity in France, after she joined the famous Folies Bergeres cabaret in Paris in 1925.
Her best known early role was her (almost) nude dance just dressed with a belt made up out of bananas.
She was also an accomplished jazz singer, and unlike earlier in the US, where she was essentially a chorus girl, she became a celebrated solo star in France, acting in movies as well. She soon learned how to speak fluently French and became a permanent resident in this country.
She was also very active among the group of various American ex-pats and became a muse for several important artists of this period, which included Ernest Hemingway ansd Pablo Picasso.
During this time (late 1920s, early 1930s) her theme song was “J’ai deux amours”.
[YouTube link] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3y5dXSyWak
When WW2 started, she worked first as a Red Cross nurse, but later joined the women’s branch of the French airforce as a sublieuntenant, but during the German occupation, she at first operated similarly as Edith Piaf, using her fame to smuggle intelligence signals for the French Resistance hidden in her music notes to e.g. Portugal.
Later she disappeared. Only after WW2 it was known that she had joined an active, fighting resistance unit in the Maquis, and later, when, due to her being too conspicious as a wellknown black woman, she went to Northern Africa, where she was playing an important role in the preperation of the Allied landings (AFAIK, she was a contact to local native leaders).
After WW2, she was awarded the Croix de Guerre, the Legion d’Honneur and the Rosette de la Resistance, medals, which the French don’t hand out easily.
Unlike her main rival of her early days in France, singer Maurice Chevallier, she never had to justify any collaboration.
Later in the 1950s she took on an active stance against racism (partially caused by bad experiences she had while returning to the US, she greatly impressed another woman, actress Grace Kelly, who would help her out of a desperate financial situation years later) and, unable to children of her own due to medical reasons, started what she called “her Rainbow family” by adopting orphaned children from all over the world, living in a castle in rural France. At the same time she was still trying to earn a living by working in her profession.
Mrs. Baker was also very involved in the American civil rights movement of the 1950s.
A biographical site, giving details about her life and her fight during WW2:
http://www.cheminsdememoire.gouv.fr/image/Biographies/GHJosephineBaker.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.cheminsdememoire.gouv.fr/personnage/josephine-baker-1906-1975,501,nl.php&h=374&w=300&sz=26&hl=en&start=1&um=1&usg=__fEIV0vZXPv1A1bncgYffy_Ov6s4=&tbnid=MtwhetJXCaDJUM:&tbnh=122&tbnw=98&prev=/images%3Fq%3DJosephine%2BBaker%2BDe%2BGaulle%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26c2coff%3D1%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN
I was trying to find a still from a newsreel movie I have seen a while ago, showing Mrs. Baker in her French Airforce uniform after the war, during the ceremony, when she was awarded the decorations by General Valin. She looked very smart there!
Jan
Don’t know who she is or what befell her but -along with the background music- I found this clip quite disturbing.
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=dQWv9KpDWEg
Note she’s wearing german army trousers.
(and Part 2: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ7N9E58dWo&watch_response)