Here is a news article from 1917 that reported on the a Russian combat unit consisting entirely of women soldiers; it was called “The Battalion of Death”:
“The Battalion of Death presents a new aspect of feminism which, while the wisdom and economy of its extension are consistently questioned the press is non the less serving the purpose of arousing its burning patriotic faith, something like shame in the men soldiers of Russia.”
“The courage of the Battalion of Death when the actual test came is the subject of many enthusiastic Petrograd dispatches. They behaved splendidly under fire, penetrating into a first-line trench of the Germans and brought back prisoners.”
Click here to read about the eyewitness accounts of the German women who served in W.W. I.
Click here to read about the women who fought in the American Civil War.
Read a 1918 article about the women’s city.
