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.
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.
American anthropologist and the second female officer to join the US Marine Corps, commissioned with the rank of Captain in 1943.
American WWII intelligence officer
In 1944, she became the first American woman in uniform to be captured in Germany during an unauthorized visit to the front near Luxembourg.
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.”
OSS intelligence agent during World War II
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.
US National Security Agency Chief of Staff
She was one of the first African Americans at the CIA to lose her life in service to her country.
Loyalist spy in the American Revolutionary War