Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Episode 12: Dame Warriors 2: Because Sometimes You Need a Posse

The Trung Women and The Night Witches:




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Further Reading:
The Trung Warriors
When Heroism is Not Enough: Three Women Warriors of Vietnam, Their Historians and World History by Professor Marc Jason Gilbert.
From Co-Loa to the Trung Sisters' Revolt: Viet-Nam as the Chinese Found It by Stephen O'Harrow. (1978)
Hai Ba Trung (The Trung Sisters) 


The Night Witches
"We, of course, would have preferred to have been called 'night beauties,' but, whichever, we did our job." - Galina Beltsova, pilot

A Dance with Death: Soviet Airwomen in WWII edited by Anne Noggle and Christine White (2001)
Wings Women and War by Reina Pennington (1997)
Unit Cohesion Among the Three Soviet Women's Air Regiments During World War IIby Jessica Bhuvasorakul (2004)
Soviet Women in Combat in WWII by Kazimiera J. Cottam (1983)



For pretty pictures:
Some awesome soul's Flickr: Some of these are Night Witches, some are other Soviet women who served in WWII.
Battlefields: Night Witches and Motherland, Garth Ennis and Russ Braun

Music: PJ Harvey - Meet Ze Monsta


Photoshop didn't pulp it up enough, moved on to acrylics - LP