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Lieutenant Lynn Spruill became the first female navy pilot qualified to land on aircraft carriers. [78] 1979 The first woman in the navy to qualify as a surface warfare officer did so this year. [79] 1980 The first women graduated from the United States Naval Academy. There were 81 women in the class of 1980 at the Naval Academy, and 55 of them ...
Mildred Helen McAfee Horton (12 May 1900 – 2 September 1994) was an American academic, educator, naval officer, and religious leader. She served during World War II as first director of the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) in the United States Navy.
Phyllis Mae Dailey (March 12, 1919 – October 31, 1976) was an American nurse and officer who became the first African American woman either to serve in the United States Navy or to become a commissioned Navy officer.
The first female officer of the United States Marine Corps was also commissioned that year with the first female detachment of marines sent to duty in Hawaii in 1945. The first director of the Marine Corps Women's Reserve was Mrs. Ruth Cheney Streeter from Morristown, New Jersey .
Chief officer: First officer: Second officer (1941–1945) [4] Superintendent: Chief officer: First officer: Second officer: Third officer: Rank group General / flag officers Senior officers Junior officers
Carmelita Vigil-Schimmenti became the first Hispanic female in the United States military to attain the rank of general. [95] [96] The US Postal Service issued a stamp honoring Mary McLeod Bethune, an educator and civil rights activist, who pressured U.S. Army leaders to allow black women in the WAAC/WAC during World War II. She assisted in the ...
1901: The United States establishes the Army Nurse Corps as a permanent part of the Army. The Corps remains all-female until 1955. [1] [2] 1908: The United States establishes the Navy Nurse Corps on 13 May. The Corps remains all-female until 1965. [1] [3] The first 20 nurses (the first women in the Navy) report to Washington, D.C. in October ...
Susan Ahn Cuddy (Korean: 안수산, Hanja: 安繡山; January 16, 1915 – June 24, 2015) was the first female gunnery officer in the United States Navy.She was the eldest daughter of Korean independence activist Ahn Chang-ho and Helen Ahn, the first married Korean couple to immigrate to the United States in 1902.