Currier & Ives lithograph, 'The Women of '76: "Molly Pitcher" The Heroine of Monmouth'

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1 Wiles Magazine s Salute to Women in Military History HER WAR II Photos & Facts (In Order of Appearance) American Revolution AmRev_MPitcher_LCUSZC23186.tif Currier & Ives lithograph, 'The Women of '76: "Molly Pitcher" The Heroine of Monmouth' Library of Congress (LC-USZC2-3186) Civil War Civil_VolunteerUnit.jpg Unidentified women's volunteer unit, Washington, D.C., Civil War. National Archives (64-M-306) Civil_WalkerMary.jpg Dr. Mary E. Walker was awarded the Medal of Honor for her service as a contract surgeon in the Union Army during the Civil War. She is the only woman who has received the nation's highest military award. The medal was awarded to Dr. Walker, an ex-prisoner of War, for her work as a physician on the battlefield and in military hospitals without regard to her own health and safety. Library of Congress Spanish-American War SpanAm_NursesOR.jpg U.S. Army contract nurses, General Hospital, Santiago, Cuba, Spanish-American War, Beginning of the Nurse Corps BeginNNC_SacredTwenty.jpg The Sacred Twenty"-the first Navy nurses, Naval History and Heritage Command World War I WWIANC_EvacHosp114.jpg

2 An Army nurse tends to a wounded solider, Evacuation Hospital No. 114, Fleury-sur-Aire, France, World War I. National Archives (111-SC-26535) WWISignal_Tours.jpg U.S. Army Signal Corps telephone operators or "Hello Girls", Tours, France, World War I. WWIUSMC_Macias.jpg Pfc. Edith Macias, Marine Reservist (F), Washington, D.C., World War I. National Archives (165-WW-598-A-10) WWIUSN_NH53165.jpg Rear Adm. Victor Blue (left center), Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, inspects yeomen (f) on the Washington Monument grounds, Washington, D.C., Naval History and Heritage Command World War II WWIIANC_ jpg U.S. Army nurses march during basic training, Greensboro, N.C., WWIICNC_ jpg U.S. Public Health Service Cadet Nurse Corps nurses, Sioux Valley Hospital, Sioux Falls, S.D., WWIINNC_Kendeigh.jpg Ensign Jane Kendeigh, first Navy Nurse Corps flight nurse to reach Iwo Jima, ministers to serious casualties awaiting evacuation on the airstrip, March Naval History and Heritage Command (NH 95014) WWIIUSCG_ jpg U.S. Coast Guard SPAR clerk, June U.S. Coast Guard photo,

3 WWIIUSMC_ jpg Women Marine Pvts. Naomi Proffitt, Bette Wimer, Betty West, and Reba Fitzgerald learn to disassemble aircraft engines for major overhauling, Assembly and Repair School, Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point, N.C U.S. Marine Corps photo, WWIIWAC_Adams.jpg Somewhere in England, Maj. Charity E. Adams, Women s Army Corps (WAC), inspects the first contingent of African-American WACs assigned to overseas service, Feb. 15, National Archives (111-SC ) WWIIWASP_Edwards.jpg Women Airforce Service Pilot (WASP) Twila Edwards confers with another WASP test pilot, California, April WWIIWAVES_ jpg U.S. Navy WAVES, U.S. Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Ill., World War II. U.S. Navy photo, Korean War and 1950s 1950sMulti_Truman.jpg President Harry S. Truman celebrates the first day sale of the new "Women in our Armed Services" stamp with representatives of the Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force and WAC at a White House ceremony, Washington, D.C., Sept. 11, National Archives (111-SC ) KoreaAFNC_Drisdale.jpg 1st Lt. A. Drisdale, Air Force flight nurse with the 801 st Medical Air Evacuation Squadron, assists a combat-wounded soldier during a flight from Korea to Japan aboard the 347 th Troop Carrier Wing s C-54 "Skymaster," October National Archives (342-FH-82763AC) KoreaANC_Bandage.tif An Army nurse bandages the wrist of a wounded soldier, Korea, Feb. 11, National Archives (111-SC )

4 Vietnam VietnamAFNC_ jpg Capt. Bettie J. Vierra, Air Force Nurse Corps, tends to a Vietnamese child during MEDCAP (Medical Civic Action Program,) Vietnam, circa VietnamANC_ jpg Captain Avon Burcher, Army Nurse Corps, 3 rd Surgical Hospital, Binh Thuy, Vietnam, circa VietnamNNC_Sanctuary.jpg A Navy nurse attends the sick and wounded on stretchers on the deck of the hospital ship USS Sanctuary moored in Da Nang Harbor, Vietnam, April National Archives (428-GX-20004) Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom OEFUSAF_ F-9999R-002.jpg Posing in the cargo bay of their Air Force C-130 aircraft following their historic all-female flight in Southwest Asia are from left to right, Staff Sgt. Josie E. Harshe, flight engineer; Capt. Anita T. Mack, navigator; 1st Lt. Siobhan Couturier, pilot; Capt. Carol J. Mitchell, aircraft commander; and loadmasters Tech. Sgt. Sigrid M. Carrero-Perez and Senior Airman Ci Ci Alonzo. U.S. Air Force OEFUSMC_ A-3749Z-022.jpg Staff Sgt. Amanda Kokx, U.S. Marine Corps, hands out humanitarian assistance items to a local Afghan woman at the Egyptian Hospital, Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Operation Enduring Freedom, April 18, DoD photo by Spc. Michael Zuk, U.S. Army OIFNNC_ N-4182M-009.jpg Cmdr. Linda Nash, Navy Nurse Corps, evaluates an Iraqi patient in the casualty receiving area aboard the hospital ship USNS Comfort, Arabian Gulf, Operation Iraqi Freedom, April 10, U.S. Navy photo by Seaman Erica Mater

5 OIFUSA_ A-5930C-006.jpg Sgt. Leigh Ann Hester, U.S. Army, stands at attention before receiving the Silver Star during an awards ceremony, Camp Liberty, Iraq, June 16, Hester is assigned as a vehicle commander with the 617 th Military Police Company, Kentucky Army National Guard and is the first female soldier to receive the Silver Star since World War II. DoD photo by Spc. Jeremy D. Crisp, U.S. Army OIFUSCG_OPERATION_IRAQ_04UJ6.jpg A crewman looks up the line during refueling onboard the Coast Guard Cutter Boutwell, which is in the North Arabian Gulf in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, March U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1 st Class Tom Sperduto OIFUSMA_PerezEmily.jpg 2 nd Lt. Emily J. Perez, a 2005 United States Military Academy graduate, deployed to Iraq in December 2005, with the Army s 204 th Support Battalion, 2 nd Brigade, 4 th Infantry, out of Fort Hood, Tex. On Sept. 12, 2006, she was killed when an improvised explosive device detonated near her Humvee in Al Kifl, Iraq.