Sakharova (Kondratyeva) Valentina Mitrofanovna was born in a repressed prosperous peasant family. She was brought up in an orphanage, where she was placed with her sister. Then they were sent to an orphanage in Siberia. Valentina served the whole war as a signalman at the headquarters of the Western Front, under the command of Marshals Rokossovsky and Zhukov The photo was taken on March 1942