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Wilma L. Vaught (born March 15, 1930) [1] is a retired U.S. Air Force brigadier general. She was the first woman to deploy with an Air Force bomber unit, [ 2 ] and the first woman to reach the rank of brigadier general from the comptroller field.
Wilma Vaught, American military officer and first woman to reach the rank of brigadier general from the comptroller field; Presley Merritt Wagoner, 40th President General of the DAR; Maria Williams-Cole, first African-American member of the DAR in Prince George's County, Maryland; Pamela Rouse Wright, 46th President General of the DAR
1950-1953: (): Women who were in the Reserves were recalled to active duty.More than 500 Army nurses served in various areas and theaters of the war. [1] [2]Captain Lillian Kinkella Keil, USAF, who had already made 250 evacuation flights (23 of which were transatlantic) during World War II, made 175 evacuation flights during the Korean War.
US President Joe Biden presents Brigadier General Wilma Vaught with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, during a ceremony honoring 17 recipients, in the East ...
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Chuck Norris is mourning the loss of his "wonderful" mom, Wilma Norris Knight, who has died at the age of 103.. The actor and martial artist, 84, revealed the news of his mother's death in an ...
According to Vaught, she was elected president of the memorial foundation because she missed the first meeting and was not there to turn down the honor. [65] Site selection needed to occur before the memorial's design. Vaught was convinced that the memorial had to have some association with an existing military facility or memorial.