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.

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Virginia Jenkins Riley

In the early 1960s, Riley was one of the designers and programmers of a general program written for the UNIVAC 490, the first computer designed specifically for real-time applications at NSA. In the late 1960s, she moved to the Cryptanalysis Department at the National Cryptologic School, where she developed a new course in Cryptanalytic Diagnostics.

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Esther Bubley

Photographer Esther Bubley found ample subject matter to explore on the American homefront as the nation mobilized for war during WWII.

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May Craig

Washington correspondent Elisabeth May Adams Craig covered World War II with the same keen eye and sharp tongue that informed her daily “Inside in Washington” column for nearly fifty years.

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Toni Frissell

Remembered today principally for her high-fashion photography for Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, Toni Frissell volunteered her photographic services to the American Red Cross, Women’s Army Corps, and Eighth Army Air Force during WWII. On their behalf, she produced thousands of images of nurses, front-line soldiers, WACs, African-American airmen, and orphaned children.

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Thérèse Bonney

Bonney’s images of homeless children and adults on the backroads of Europe touched millions of viewers in the United States and abroad during WWII.

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