Maria Gulovich
Maria Gulovich, a young Slovakian schoolteacher, was only 23 when she began harboring Jews from the Nazis. She joined the underground resistance and began working for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) as a guide and interpreter.
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Leslianne Shedd
Leslianne Shedd—a young, courageous, highly successful CIA operations officer serving in East Africa—was a passenger on an Ethiopian Airlines flight when it was hijacked and then crashed into the Indian Ocean in 1996, killing 125 people, including Leslianne.
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
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.
Betty McIntosh
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.”
Betty Lussier
OSS intelligence agent during World War II
Barbara Lauwers
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.