Juliet Beyler
Executive director for U.S. Naval Forces Europe and Africa
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Kate Cumming
Kate Cumming is best known for her dedicated service to sick and wounded Confederate soldiers. She spent much of the latter half of the U.S. Civil War (1861-65) as a nurse in hospitals throughout Georgia.
“Canary Girls”
British and Irish women who worked in munitions manufacturing trinitrotoluene (TNT) shells during World War I
Winifred Pink
1920s British car racer and mechanic
Captain Mary Therese Klinker
Captain Mary Therese Klinker was a U.S. Air Force flight nurse who died during Operation Babylift, a humanitarian mission to evacuate orphans from Vietnam.
Jane Reilly Slattery
One of the first female commissioned officers in the United States Navy. She served during World War II in the WAVES , Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service.
Frieda van Duyn
German nurse awarded the Iron Cross Medal for distinguished service.
Elna Grahn
Grahn commanded the 2525th Women’s Army Corps (WAC) unit during World War II and was the first woman to serve on a United States Army General Court Martial.
Ivah Ree Harris Coker
Member of the WAVES Naval Reserve (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) during WWII
Phoebe Yates Levy Pember
US Civil War Confederate nurse who eventually ran the world’s largest hospital