Coral Wong Pietsch
On March 30, 2001, Coral Wong Pietsch became the first female Asian American general officer in the Army and the first female general officer of the Judge Advocate General’s Corps’ (JAG) 230-year history.
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Helen Veshosky
Helen Veshosky volunteered for the US Army Nurse Corps in 1944 and commissioned as a second lieutenant. After a brief training period, she deployed to England to begin her work as an Army nurse.
Lena Basilone
US Marine Corps veteran Lena Basilone served during World War II
Cari Gasiewicz
U.S. military officer
Elsie S Ott
In September 1941, Ott joined the Army Nurse Corps. Later, she commissioned as a second lieutenant and had assignments in Louisiana, Virginia and India. During her assignment to Karachi, Ott participated in the first air evacuation, where crews evacuated patients to Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C.
Mary Louise Rasmuson
The fifth director of the US Women’s Army Corps during and after WWII
Gerda Taro
Before Gerda Taro became the first woman photojournalist to die while covering a war on the front lines, she worked with her lover Endre Friedmann. Together they collaborated on work attributed to “Robert Capa,” an American persona intended to protect European Jewish artists from increasing political tensions on the continent in the 1930s
Lagertha
Legendary Viking shieldmaiden known from Saxo Grammaticus’ early 13th-century CE Gesta Danorum.
Isabella of France
Isabella of France (c. 1292-1358) was the queen consort of Edward II of England (r. 1307-1327). After heading a coup to overthrow her husband, she ruled as regent for their young son, Edward III of England (r. 1327-1377) until he forced her into retirement in 1330.
Joan I of Navarre
Joan I of Navarre (1273-1305) served as queen of Navarre and countess of Champagne and Brie between 1274 and 1305. In 1285, she also became queen consort of France following her marriage to Philip IV of France (reign 1285-1314). In the last year of her life, she founded the college of Navarre at the University of Paris.