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Kara S. Hultgreen [1] (October 5, 1965 – October 25, 1994) was an American naval aviator who served as a lieutenant in the United States Navy and was the first female carrier-based fighter pilot in the U.S. Navy. She was also the first female fighter pilot in the U.S. military to die in a crash. [2]
She became the U.S. Air Force's first female fighter pilot in 1993, and was the first woman to command a USAF combat fighter wing. [2] In April 2021, she was appointed to replace Major General John T. Rauch as Chief of Safety of the United States Air Force , and assumed office on August 13, 2021.
Col. Jeannie Leavitt (maiden name Flynn) became the first American female F-15E pilot, and went on to become the first female pilot to graduate from the U.S. Air Force Weapons School. [75] Chana Timoner became the first female rabbi to hold an active duty assignment as a chaplain in the U.S. Army. [114] [115]
Flying for Her Country: the American and Soviet women military pilots of World War II. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-275-99434-1. Cottam, Kazimiera J. (1998). Women in War and Resistance: Selected Biographies of Soviet Women Soldiers. Focus Publishing/R.Pullins Co. ISBN 1-58510-160-5. Jackson, Robert (2003). Air aces of World War II ...
Shawna Rochelle Kimbrell (born April 20, 1976; née Ng A Qui) is a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Air Force, and the first female African-American fighter pilot in the history of that service. She flew the F-16 Fighting Falcon during combat missions in Operation Northern Watch.
Elizabeth L. Gardner (1921 – December 22, 2011) was an American pilot during World War II who served as a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP). She was one of the first American female military pilots [1] and the subject of a well-known photograph, sitting in the pilot's seat of a Martin B-26 Marauder.
Daniel "Chappie" James Jr. (February 11, 1920 – February 25, 1978) was a fighter pilot in the United States Air Force who, in 1975, became the first African American to reach the rank of four-star general in the United States Armed Forces.
Jammie Jamieson is a United States Air Force officer and the first operational female fighter pilot selected to fly the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor. Her call sign is "Trix". [1] Jammie Jamieson was born in Tacoma and lived in Prosser from 1982 until she left for the Air Force Academy in 1996.