Barbara Moriarty
Biddy Moriarty undertook Australian Red Cross work with repatriated prisoners of war during the final years of the war, which included being a member of the Red Cross contingent assisting the 2nd POW Reception Group in Singapore.
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Moynawoti
Indian warrior queen
Lt. Gen. Susan J Helms
US Air Force lieutenant general and NASA astronaut
Mary G Phillips
She graduated from the US Army School of Nursing in 1929 and was one of the school’s few alumnae to join the Army Nurse Corps.
Katherine Leahy
She graduated from the Yale School of Nursing in 1934 and worked as a nurse in a hospital in Bridgeport, CT. Leahy enlisted in the Navy in 1943 because she thought “nurses would be needed” and that she could help.
Aileen Nusbaum
American archaeologist and WWI nurse
Alice Yick
The first Chinese American woman to work at the Charlestown Navy Yard and an advocate for military veterans.
Raye Montague
Naval engineer who developed a computer program to design ships in as little as 18 and 26 minutes, compared to the two years it took before
Dovey Johnson Roundtree
Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps Captain responsible for the recruitment of African American female soldiers during World War II, lawyer and civil rights activist
Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper
US astronaut and engineer