June Townsend Gentry
June Townsend Gentry (Yuchi/Choctaw) served in the US Coast Guard during World War II, one of the 800 Native American women to join the US military.
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Dr Mary Safford-Blake
Mary Jane Safford (1834-1891), known as the “Cairo Angel,” was a nurse during the Civil War and later a physician and advocate for women’s health and suffrage. She taught at the Boston University School of Medicine.
Mildred Davenport
Trailblazing dancer and renowned dance instructor.
Frances Slanger
The first American nurse in the European Theater to be killed in combat during World War II.
Sonia Vagliano-Eloy
Women in the French Resistance: Sonia Vagliano-Eloy joined de Gaulle’s Free French and trained in London. After D-Day, she was sent to France with her female colleagues to oversee refugee camps. She worked with the survivors of Buchenwald.
Toni Bullock
Pioneering funeral home owner, a WWII radio operator, and the youngest Black woman to earn an embalming license in Massachusetts.
Harriet Boyd Hawes
Archeologist Harriet Boyd Hawes became the first woman to lead an archaeological expedition when she discovered the ancient town of Gournia on Crete. In later years she also served as a volunteer nurse during the Greco-Turkish War and World War I.
Dorothy E Johnson
Member of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion
Emma Brown
Member of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion
Evelyn Johnson
Member of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion