Elizabeth (Betty) Wall Strohfus fell in love with flying airplanes in the 1940s and became a Women Airforce Service Pilot (WASP) during World War II. She fought for WASP veteran recognition in the 1970s, and from the 1990s until her death, she traveled across the country to tell her story and inspire others.
The only Japanese American woman to work full-time for the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study (JERS).
Virginia Lane Frazier was one of the first Black US Army’s Women’s Corps (WAC) soldiers to enlist in Minnesota during World War II.
Nicknamed Road Runner for her unflagging energy and enthusiasm, Carolyn Hisako Tanaka served in Vietnam in spite of a scarring childhood memory.
Canadian war heroine
During WWII, she was one of the few women hired into the OSS Morale Operations (MO) branch, charged with creating rumors that our foreign adversaries would believe. In other words, so-called “black propaganda.”
OSS intelligence agent during World War II
Agnes Betty Jeffrey was a member of the Australian Army Nursing Service when she was captured by the Japanese after the fall of Singapore in 1942.
Corporal in the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) during WWII and Bronze Star recipient whose work led to the defection of 600 soldiers from behind Italian lines.
One of the first women to serve onboard Navy ships, activist and politician