Jo Ann Hardesty
One of the first women to serve onboard Navy ships, activist and politician
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Lula Mae O’Bannon
Lula Mae O’Bannon (Choctaw) used the opportunities in joining the US Coast Guard SPARS during World War II to expand her horizons and serve the United States’s war effort.
Lula Belle Everidge
Lula Belle Everidge served in World War II as one of the few Native American SPARS.
Dr Frederica de Laguna
Dr. Frederica “Freddy” de Laguna was an influential archeologist and anthropologist who worked extensively throughout Alaska.
Cora Dell Croft
Cora Dell Croft enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve Force at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in September 1918. She served during and after the First World War with two other Yeomen (F) who had joined the Navy with her, Mabel Nora Croft and Frances Gormley, at the Bureau of Navigation in Washington, D.C.
Lieutenant Betty W Mayer
She entered the Navy Nurse Corps in March 1909 and served in Naval medical facilities in the United States and in the Philippines during the years prior to World War I. She was a Chief Nurse at Navy Base Hospital # 1, in Brest, France, in 1918-19, and served as an Assistant Superintendent of the Navy Nurse Corps in 1923-30. Subsequent assignments included duty at Great Lakes, San Diego, and Philadelphia.
Madeline Clara Lassuy
After 2 1/2 years of civilian nursing, she became a Navy Nurse in February 1937 and was first stationed at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station Hospital, Great Lakes, Illinois. In 1939, she was transferred to San Diego Naval Hospital.
Lieutenant Commander Rosamond D Selle
Rosamond D. Selle joined the Navy’s Women’s Reserve in September 1942 and was commissioned as one of the early WAVES officers. She was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in October 1943 and to Lieutenant Commander in October 1945. She remained in the Naval Reserve until at least 1949.
Shirley Feldstein Bell
Shirley Feldstein enlisted in the WAVES at Portland, Oregon, in September 1942. She received training at Cedar Falls, Iowa, and Norman, Oklahoma, during the first part of 1943 and was a member of the initial group of WAVES to become Aviation Metalsmiths. Later, she served in that rate at Naval Air Station, Seattle (Sand Point), Washington.
Mabel Nora Croft
Mabel Nora Croft enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve Force at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in September 1918. She served during and after the First World War with two other Yeomen (F) who had joined the Navy with her, Cora Dell Croft and Frances Gormley, at the Bureau of Navigation in Washington, D.C.