WOMEN WHO WENT TO WAR IN THE GREAT WAR: Scroll down to the long post on women at war during World War One– below the long post on World War One’s “assumptions” that made August 1914 an optimal time to go to war (a good read, too).

From the “Women Who Went to War” in the Great War post:

Lyubov A. Golanchikova (d. 1961), a stage actress and vaudeville dancer known as “Milly More”, received a flying certificate in 1911 from a Tsarist military aviation school. In 1913 she set a women’s altitude record of 7,218 feet in a Fokker Eindecker, gaining considerable attention and apparently helping convince the German Army to adopted the Eindecker for their air service. Early in the war she performed reconnaissance missions for the Russian Army using her own plane. She later flew for the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War, but eventually fled Russia. Golanchikova eventually settled in New York, where she worked as cab driver.

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