Newspaper accounts from 1941 describe her as “an expert pistol shot, a rodeo rider, a professional basketball player and coach, a physical director, a schoolma’m, a law school graduate, and a trained detective”—and all before she was 39 years old.
Barbara June Stone served in the US Navy WAVES program as a yeoman third class during World War II
Florence L. Johnson served in the WAVES during WWII and later became an advocate for veterans and Gold Star Mothers after her son’s death in the Vietnam War.
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Petty Officer 3rd Class Yona Owens was instrumental in securing the right for women to serve aboard US Navy ships.
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US astronaut and naval officer
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