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.
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Marion Frieswyk
OSS cartographer during WWII
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.
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.
Dorothy Lawrence
During the First World War, Lawrence disguised herself as a man, and using the alias Denis Smith, joined the British Army.
Frances Clayton
American who fought in the US Civil War disguised as a man
Hannah Snell
Englishwoman Hannah Snell assumed the identity of her brother-in-law, James Gray, after her child died and her husband deserted her. For four years, she served in the British Royal Marines.
Stephanie Czech
American WWII intelligence officer
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.
Wendy Wamsley Taines
American army corporal who served as a medic during the Persian Gulf War