Virginia Jenness Millett Apocada
Virginia Jenness Millett Apocada served in the US Navy’s Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service during WWII.
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Beatrice Ball
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
Barbara June Stone served in the US Navy WAVES program as a yeoman third class during World War II
Florence L Johnson
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.
Captain Wendy B Lawrence
American astronaut and naval pilot
Yona Owens
Petty Officer 3rd Class Yona Owens was instrumental in securing the right for women to serve aboard US Navy ships.
Captain Lisa Nowak
American astronaut and naval captain
Dr Megan McArthur
American astronaut and oceanographer
Kayla Barron
American astronaut, engineer and naval officer
Kathryn Hire
US astronaut and naval officer