Tamara Prokhorova, female commander of a Soviet mortar battery

Tamara Prokhorova, female commander of a Soviet mortar battery

Jun 10, 2017 #Red Army

Tamara Prokhorova

 

World War 2 photo: Tamara Prokhorova at the very end of the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union (1941-1945) served in the 147th Rifle Regiment of the 49th Guards Rifle Division as a 82-mm mortar platoon commander. Eastern Front.
This picture of Tamara Prokhorova, the female commander of the Soviet mortar battery, made in 1945 after the victory over Nazi Germany.

 

 

>Photo date: 1945
Author: Anatoly Lambros

 

Source of Tamara Prokhorova image: archive of the 49th Guards Rifle Division

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