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.
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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.
Marlisa L Smith
US National Security Agency Chief of Staff
Jacqueline K Van Landingham
She was one of the first African Americans at the CIA to lose her life in service to her country.
Ann Bates
Loyalist spy in the American Revolutionary War
Barbara A Robbins
Barbara A. Robbins joined the CIA, but just two years later – in March 1965 – she was killed when terrorists bombed the U.S. Embassy in South Vietnam. She was the first female CIA officer to die in the line of duty and she remains the youngest ever, at just 21-years old.