Iris Critchell
Iris Cummings Critchell served as a Women Airforce Service Pilot during World War II. The National Flight Instructors inducted her into the Hall of Fame in 2000 for her exemplary career as a flight instructor.
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Sergeant Lesly Johnson
US Army veteran
Major General Marcia Anderson
The US Army’s first African American female major general.
Diane Icilda Mills
Antiguan American US Army veteran
Tillie Smith
US Air Force Veteran Tillie Smith served for six years as a mechanic.
Stacey Thompson
US Marine Corps veteran who received an “Other Than Honorable” discharge after reporting a sexual assault by a senior officer. After years of litigation, she received a discharge upgrade from Department of Defense.
Major Maginia Morales
Filipina-American US Army veteran
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.
Helen Grace McClelland
US Army Veteran Helen Grace McClelland served as a nurse during World War I.
Marcella Hayes Ng
The first female African American pilot to serve in the US military