Florence Finch aided United States military intelligence and the Philippine resistance movement during World War II. She provided supplies to prisoners of war (POWs) in Manila when the Japanese occupied the island, and she survived arrest and interrogation.
Formerly enslaved in the state of Kentucky, Emma Stephenson voluntarily served as a nurse with the U.S. 17th Army Corps.
Dorothy Stratton was the Director of the SPARS, the women’s reserve branch of the US Coast Guard during World War II.
Member of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion.
Member of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion
Deputy Director, National Security Agency (US)
Dr. Loy McAfee served as a contract surgeon with the surgeon general’s office of the U.S. Army during World War I.
Irish biographer
Lucy Ann White Cox was a vivandière during the American Civil War (1861–1865).
Thomas(in) Hall was an intersex individual who lived in seventeenth century Virginia.