Women in war zones: a history of female front line heroes

Flora Sandes, the Sergeant Major who was wounded by a grenade during hand-to-hand combat in World War I (1914 - 1918)&nbsp;

Sarah Bushbye, the Lance Corporal who dodged through enemy fire to rescue her colleagues in Afghanistan (2009)

Ngo Thi Tuyen, the peasant soldier who defended Dragon Jaw Bridge during the Vietnam War (1965)

Mariam Al Mansouri, the UAE fighter pilot who led a bombing mission against Isis in Syria (2014)

Cathay Williams, the First African American&nbsp;woman to enlist in the US Army (1866)

Leigh Ann Hester, the US Army Sergeant who fought off an ambush of 50 militants in Iraq (2005)

Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, the&nbsp;teenage guerrilla activist who laid mines for the&nbsp;Nazis and died for her cause (1941)

Ashley Collette, the Captain who led her platoon through daily attacks in a remote town in Afghanistan (2010)

Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, the army surgeon and prisoner who worked in the&nbsp;bloody battlefields of the US Civil War (1861 - 1865)