Unexpected patriots: women in the Revolutionary War -- Margaret Corbin: ready! aim! fire! -- Deborah Sampson Gannett: a soldier's secret -- Prudence Cummings Wright: the women's militia -- Don't mess with Texas: women in the Mexican-American War -- Sarah Bowman Borginnes: an Honorary Colonel -- Elizabeth Caroline Newcome: the things we do for love -- Women warriors: women in the Civil War -- Box: Clara Barton and the Red Cross -- Dorothea Lynde Dix: founder of the first female nursing corps -- Sarah Emma Edmonds: master of disguise -- Jennie Hodgers: becoming Albert Cashier -- Susie King Taylor: the first African-American nurse -- Harriet Tubman: beyond the Underground Railroad -- Sarah Rosetta Wakeman: she kept her secret to the end -- Dr. Mary Edward Walker: the only woman to receive the Medal of Honor -- Cathay Williams: from slave to soldier -- A new kind of soldier: women in the Spanish-American War -- And World War I -- Edith Ayres and Helen Wood: the first to die -- Genevieve and Lucille Baker: always ready -- Esther Voorhees Hasson: Army, Navy, Army -- Lenah Higbee: the Navy's Nurse -- Opha May Johnson: the first female Marine -- Dr. Anita Newcomb McGee: creating a professional nursing corps -- Loretta Perfectus Walsh: a new kind of soldier -- It's our war, too: women in World War II -- Angels of Bataan: serving to the end -- Margaret Bourke-White: images of war -- Jacqueline Cochran: a record-shattering career -- Carmen Contreras-Bozak: the first Hispanic woman to serve -- Dr. Margaret Craighill: yes, we can -- Susan Ahn Cuddy: the first Asian-American woman in the Navy -- Colonel Charity Adams Earley: you've got mail -- Lieutenant Annie G. Fox: cool under fire -- Captain Joy Bright Hancock: riding the waves -- Colonel Oveta Culp Hobby: setting a new direction -- Commodore Grace Hopper: amazing grace -- First Lieutenant Aleda E. Lutz: fearless in flight -- Captain Elsie Ott: bringing nursing to the skies -- Box: Claire Phillips: General MacArthur's spy -- Second Lieutenant Reba Z. Whittle: the silent prisoner of war -- Frances Wills, Harriet Pickens, and Mildred Mcafee: three who dared -- Here to stay: women in the Korean War -- Staff Sergeant Barbara Barnwell: courage at sea -- Sergeant Esther Blake: first in line -- Captain Jonita Ruth Bonham: the nurse who forgot fear -- Captain Eleanor C. L'ecuyer: redefining the role of women -- Colonel Geraldine Pratt May: organizing the Air Force.
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