So, because one woman heroically manned a cannon, we are to put women in combat units?
I’ll grant that there are places where women can make a positive contribution to a military mission, but ground combat is not one of them.
300,000 brave Yugo, Albanian, Iti`s and Greek ladies say someone is bloody dead wrong and it ain`t me!!!
And that someone does not know wtf he/she are talking about. PERIOD!!!
Please apologize to the ladies.
viz- Learn from history, who is a great teacher!!
viz-
“Women played a large role in the Italian Resistance.
After the war, about 35,000 Italian women were recognised as
female partigiane combattente (partisan combatants) “
” we were dumbfounded’ when she said that one-quarter of the partisan [Yugoslavian]fighters were women.
News continued to reach Greece about
the achievements of the women fighters of both Yugoslavia and Albania”
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journals.msvu.ca/index.php/atlantis/article/viewFile/
There were thousands of female soldiers- women combatants
who fought in battle against the Germans. -”On the battlefield the women always
went forward and won.”[Vervenioti, 1994, p319 ff]
“4.4 The Women’s Platoons
30The partisan heartland had shifted from Roumeli to Macedonia when women’s
involvement in ELAS was formalised in 1944. Women’s platoons operated in the
Ninth Division (western Macedonia), Tenth Division (central Macedonia),
Thirteenth Division (Roumeli), Second Division (Atticoboetia), First Division
(Thessaly), and the Eighth Division (Ipiros) (see Vervenioti, 1994).
Most of these young women were members of EPON, fugitives from the cities,
or local women from the liberated areas. As the women’s platoons were formed
towards the end of the Axis occupation, they were used in operations to cut
off German escape routes, as well as in the liberation of villages and towns.
Women’s involvement occurred, therefore, within a climate of increasing optimism
as (partisan) victory beckoned.
The women in the villages and the towns where the partisan war is blooming must pour
all their might into that front. They must be organised into the local organisations
of ELAS, EAM and the Thessalian Ieros Lochos [a military formation literally translated
as ‘Holy Company’]. They must become actively involved in every department.
They must organise fighting units for the young women who can and want to carry a weapon.
Their role is important in a popular uprising, as they will inspire a delirium of
enthusiasm, striking the most sensitive chord of any Greek: his honour. (19 March 1943)”
http://www.gutenberg-e.org/poulos/chapter4.html#s4
Truly civilized countries recognize the purpose of the military is to protect the women and children , not put them in harms way.