WWII veteran Valentina Koposova talked about working as a signalman

Valentina Koposova, a participant in the Great Patriotic War (WWII), told Izvestia on May 9 about her work as a signalman during the war.

"A front is a front. We've been under fire, and how many times — more than once," she recalls.

Koposova reached Berlin itself. At the front, she served as a signalman and worked as a telegraph operator on the S-35 apparatus — she transmitted operational reports, intelligence, ciphers and orders. The working day lasted for 12 hours, after which she returned to the unit, the veteran said.

The control room where the signalmen were located was bombed more than once. Despite the danger, the girls continued to fulfill their task of working "blindly."

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"It was, of course, gorgeous. So joyful. What we've been waiting for all four years. We rushed out of the control room, shouting: "Hurrah! Victory! We won!" It was very solemn, and then I went back to my hardware rooms," Koposova recalls.

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