Dickey Chapelle
Photojournalist and war correspondent
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Heather Ann Wilson
The first female military veteran elected to a full term in the US Congress, the first graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy to be sworn in as Secretary of the Air Force.
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.
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.