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Which woman, who died in 2019, was the last living female "Hero of the Soviet Union" who was a veteran of the Second World War?

Question #148618. Asked by pehinhota.
Last updated Aug 19 2021.
Originally posted Aug 19 2021 3:33 PM.

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Yekaterina Mikhailova-Demina
Ekaterina Illarionovna Mikhailova-Demina (Born 22 December 1925) is the only woman who served in front-line reconnaissance in the Soviet marines during World War II. She carried hundreds of men off the battlefield and was seriously wounded three times during her career as a medic with the marines. Despite repeatedly being nominated she was denied high honors at the war's end, reflecting the Soviet Union's unequal approach to honoring its fighting men and women. However, she was belatedly honored by President Mikhail Gorbachev in May 1990 with the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

After the death of Yevdokia Pasko in January 2017, Demina remained the last living female Hero of the Soviet Union that was a veteran of the Second World War, with the other two being cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova and Svetlana Savitskaya

link https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Yekaterina_Mikhailova-Demina

Aug 19 2021, 5:50 PM
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