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Chand Bibi

1500s regent of India’s Bijapur Sultanate and Ahmednagar Sultanate, who defended Ahmednagar against the Mughal forces

Heather Wilson

In 1998 Heather Wilson became the first woman veteran of the U.S. armed services and the second woman from New Mexico elected to the U.S. Congress.

Juliet Beyler

Executive director for U.S. Naval Forces Europe and Africa

Kate Cumming is best known for her dedicated service to sick and wounded Confederate soldiers. She spent much of the latter half of the U.S. Civil War (1861-65) as a nurse in hospitals throughout Georgia.

“Canary Girls”

British and Irish women who worked in munitions manufacturing trinitrotoluene (TNT) shells during World War I

Winifred Pink

1920s British car racer and mechanic

Captain Mary Therese Klinker

Captain Mary Therese Klinker was a U.S. Air Force flight nurse who died during Operation Babylift, a humanitarian mission to evacuate orphans from Vietnam.

Jane Reilly Slattery

One of the first female commissioned officers in the United States Navy. She served during World War II in the WAVES , Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service.