During the Great Patriotic War, many pathologists, both pre-war professionals and those receiving the degree at a war-time, worked in the ranks of the Red Army. Moreover, many future pathologists who have got medical training after the war, participated in the battles with fascists aggressors as soldiers and officers of different kinds of troops as well as in the partisan movement. Prewar merits of the veterans in the field of pathology and their successful professional and administrative work after the war are listed. Likewise the achievements of pathologists who were soldiers or officers of the Red Army during the war and who after the war got their medical degree and became well-known scientists or clinical pathologists efficiently working in the Soviet public health, science and teaching, are recorded.