Frances Clayton
American who fought in the US Civil War disguised as a man
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Hannah Snell
Englishwoman Hannah Snell assumed the identity of her brother-in-law, James Gray, after her child died and her husband deserted her. For four years, she served in the British Royal Marines.
Sarah Emma Edmonds
Served in the US Civil War disguised as a man
Wilma Zimmerman Davis
With a degree in mathematics and a Navy correspondence course on cryptology Wilma Davis was hired to work in the Army’s Signal Intelligence Service in the late 1930s.
Major Charlotte Gower Chapman
American anthropologist and the second female officer to join the US Marine Corps, commissioned with the rank of Captain in 1943.
Stephanie Czech
American WWII intelligence officer
Wendy Wamsley Taines
American army corporal who served as a medic during the Persian Gulf War
Adeline Blanchard Tyler
American nurse, missionary, and activist known for her nursing work during the American Civil War.
Alice Rohe
Alice Rohe became a newspaper writer in the 1890s and joined Theta Sigma Phi, the first American journalism professional society for women, when it was established in 1909.
Gertrude Sanford Legendre
In 1944, she became the first American woman in uniform to be captured in Germany during an unauthorized visit to the front near Luxembourg.