Open this photo in gallery: Basic Trainees Learning to Stand at Ease (1946) by Canadian artist Molly Lamb Bobak. Bobak was the first and only woman to be appointed as an official war artist for Canada during the Second World War.Beaverbrook Collection of War Art / Canadian War Museum Sarah Percy is the author of Forgotten Warriors: The Long History of Women in Combat. On June 24, 1945, 40,000 soldiers paraded through Red Square, celebrating the hard-fought Soviet victory against Nazi Germany. It was the largest military parade Moscow had ever seen, and included men from every branch of the...