"Altogether I carried 481 wounded soldiers from under fire. One of the journalists counted them up: a whole infantry battalion...We hauled men two or three times our weight. When they're wounded they're still heavier...So you hoist some 180 pounds on your back and carry it. Unload it...Go for the next one." -Maria Petrovna Smirnova, Medic
Nina Onilova enlisted in the Red Army as a medic at the age of 20. Deployed to the front in August 1941 with the 54th Razin Regiment, she quickly proved herself with a machine gun. Onilova participated in the defense of both Odessa and Sevastopol. In November 1941 Onilova crawled from her trench across 20 meters of open ground to throw Molotov cocktails, setting a tank on fire. These actions earned her acclaim across the Soviet Union. Then on February 28, 1942 she destroyed two enemy machine gun nests and covered her unit's retreat alone. Onilova then took a mortar blast to the chest, mortally wounding her. She died March 8, 1942 having earned the Order of the Red Banner, and posthumously granted Hero of the Soviet Union in 1965.
[On German POWs] "Did I pity the Germans? Of course not. No. How could I feel pity for them? If I was going somewhere with my machine gun and they carried a wounded man past me I'd say, 'Bastards, why did you ever come here?' And they'd walk past, all very shabby, dirty, huddling in those rags of theirs. Pity them? We didn't invite them here." Maria Lapina, combat medic.
Lubov Leychik, 93
Leychik was 21 years old when she started to work as a nurse in the Grozny field hospital. “My task was to load the dressings of wounded soldiers and change them regularly,” she said. “I also wrote letters to the parents who lost their sons in various battles.”
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