As the US entered World War II, Cordelia joined the war effort after seeing the horror of the Nazis first hand. She accepted a job with US Military intelligence, translating and analyzing air order of battle at the Pentagon. When she requested a transfer overseas she was turned down, so she resigned and joined the OSS.
Edna knew from a very early age that art and design was her life’s passion.
OSS officer during WWII
Elizabeth Sudmeier was a pioneer in breaking down gender barriers at the CIA.
The first CIA officer to die while employed by the Agency.
OSS cartographer during WWII
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.
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.
Served in the US Civil War disguised as a man
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.