Notations following page numbers:
n indicates reference found in note
p indicates photograph
A
Acronyms, listed, xiii–xv
Agent Orange, 125
Allawi, Iyad, 51
Alonzo, Ci Ci (Senior Airman, USAF), 107p
American Nightingale: The Story of Frances Slanger, Forgotten Heroine of Normandy (Welch), 153
American Red Cross, ix
Amos, James (Lt. Gen, USMC), 55
Andress, “Doogie” (Capt., USMC), 45
Angels in Fatigues, 139
Aquidneck, USCGC, 9–16
Arc Royal, HMS, 13–14
Arlington National Cemetery, notable women buried at, 187–91
Armonda, R. A. (Lt. Col., USA), 32
B
“Baghdad Diaries”, 59–64
Barney, Rachel, 40
Baron, Scott, 19n, 24n, 28n, 111n, 118n, 122n, 131n, 231
Bass, Kristin L. (2nd Lt., USAF), 104p
Bates, Lyndsi (Lt., USN), 101p
Bellavia, Joseph P. (Staff Sgt., USA), 22
Boyum, Naomi, 40
Bradley, Ruby Grace (Col., USA), 138–41, 166
childhood and early education, 138–39
enlistment, 139
Florence Nightingale Medal, 140
Korea
Inchon landing, 140
Pongyang, withdrawal from, 138, 140
most decorated woman, U.S. Army, 140
nursing school, 139
Philippines
Angels in Fatigues, 139
return from, 140
transfer to, 139
World War II, outbreak of, 139
retirement, 140
Bronze Star recipients
Clements, Jessica Lee (SSgt., USAR), 32
Doering, Anne Marie (Lt., Col., USA), 112
Grace, Teresa Broadwell (Pfc., USA), 22
Harrison, Holly R. (Lt. Cdr., USCG), 5
Brosmer, Margaret (Col., USA), 131–37
1st MASH, assignment to, 131
basic training, 131
Cadet Nurse Corps, 131
Chosin Few, membership in, 136
Chosin Reservoir, retreat from, 134–35
convoy of wounded, Inchon to Pusan, 132–33
enlistment, 131
family and early education, 131
Hungham evacuation, 135
Inchon landing, 132
“Lucky Thirteen”, 133
military career, post-Korea, 136
nursing school, 131
Pyongyang, fall to Communist forces, 134
rotation home, 136
Seoul, 132
strong military, advocate of, 137
Brown, Vera (Capt., USAF), 130
Bunker, Ellsworth, 120
C
Campbell, Kim Reed (Capt., USA), 103p
Canastia, Evelyn, 120
Card, USNS, 115
Carrero-Perez, Sigrid M. (TSgt., USAF), 107p
Catholic Relief Services, ix
Central Intelligence Agency, ix
Charette, Holly (Cpl., USMC), 90–94
Cheverton, Jane Louise Kendiegh (Ens., USN), 156–59
air evacuation flight nurse, training for, 156–57
battlefield, first nurse to land on, 156, 157
childhood and early education, 156
commendation, Commander, Forward Area-Central Pacific, 159
kamikaze planes, 158
marriage, to Lt. Robert E. Cheverton, 159
mission, first VRE-1, 157–58
nursing school, 156
Okinawa, 158
retirement, 159
U.S. Navy Nurse Corps, 156
VRE-1 (Evacuation Transport Squadron), assignment to, 157
War Bond tour, 158–59
Chinook, USS, 12
Chosin Few, 136
Christianson, Lorraine [Lt. (jg), USN], 165
Clements, Jessica Lee (SSgt., USAR), 28–32
active duty, call to, 29
Army Achievement Medal, 32
Bronze Star, 32
enlistment and training, 29
recovery, 30–32
surgical treatment, 30
survival chances, 30
retirement and disability, 32
Cold War, 127
Coleman, Eunice (Capt., USA), 133
Coleman, John C. (Col., USMC), 51–52
Colonna, Jerry, 116
Combat, women in, 2
aviation, 1
debate over, ix
Haiti and Bosnia, peacekeeping missions in, 1
Korean and Viet Nam, 1
military police mission, Iraq and Afghanistan, 19, 35–36
Operation Allied Force, 2
Operation Desert Fox, 2
Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), 2
Operation Iraqi Freedom, 2
Panama, 1
Persian Gulf War, 1
pre-World War II, 1
risk rules, 1
twenty-first century transition, 1
World War II, 1
Connors, Genevieve (Lt., USA), 135
Cornum, Rhonda (Maj., USA), 98, 107p
Couturier, Siobhan (1st Lt., USAF), 107p
Crumpton, Frances (Lt., USN), 116
D
Danner, Dorothy Still [Lt. (jg), USN], 168–69
Dewitt, Gill (Lt., USN), 157
Doering, Anne Marie (Lt., Col., USA), 111–12
Bronze Star for Valor, 112
childhood and family, 111
education, 111
Hollandia, New Guinea, 112
Japan, 112
marriage, to Earl Solomon, 111
officers training, 112
Philippines, 112
Vietnam War, 112
Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps volunteer, 111–12
Dorn, Terri (Capt., USA), 19
Duckworth, Ladda Tammy (Maj., USANG), 104p
Duncan, Mildred E. (1st Sgt., USA), 111
E
English, Robert H. (Rear Adm., USN), 6
F
F/A-18Ds, 42–3
Firebolt, USS, 12
Fisher, Michelle Loftus, (Pfc., USA), 24–27
ambush, roadside IED and small-arms fire, 24, 26
enlistment and training, 25
family, military background of, 24–25
injuries, 26
marriage, to Sgt. Anthony Fisher, 27
Operation Iraqi Freedom, 25, 26
Flynn, Jeannie (1st Lt., USAF), 102p
Fogerty, Virginia [Lt. (jg), USN], 165
Frazier, Misty (Sgt., USA), 22
Fred C. Ainsworth, USNS, 135
Fulce, Karen (SSgt., USAF), 103p
G
Ganci, Peter J., Jr., 45
Gen. E. D. Patrick, USS, 133
Gen W.A. Mann, USS, 132
Global war on terror, ix
Grace, Teresa Broadwell (Pfc., USA), 19–23
Bronze Star for Valor, 22
firefight, 21–22
marriage, to Spc. Jake Grace, 22
patrol ambush, 20–21
Purple Heart, 22
training, basic and military police, 20
Granrud, Britta, xi
Green, Sheron Lee (Spc5, USA), 118–21
basic training, 118
early education and career, 118
enlistment, 118
family, 118
military education and career, 119
retirement, 121
Vietnam
Army Commendation Medal, 121
Catholics and Buddhists, conflicts between, 120
Good Conduct Medal, 121
injuries, 119–20
Long Binh, assignment to, 119
orphanages, volunteer work at, 120
Purple Heart, 120
Saigon, assignment to, 120–21
U.S. Embassy, part-time work, 120–21
Grilley, Sean R. (Cpl., USA), 23
Gripsholm, SS, 165
H
Hall, Natalie, xi
Hanley, “Dex” (Capt., USMC), 51
Harrison, Holly R. (Lt. Cdr., USCG), 5–18
Aquidneck, USCGC, 9–16
Bronze Star, 5
Bronze Star recipient, 17
command afloat, screening for, 9
family, military background of, 5–6
fisheries boardings, 7–8
Kiska, USCGC, 8–9
Legare, USCGC, 5
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Arc Royal, HMS, 13–14
chemical biological attack, 11–12
cramped conditions and heat, 16–17
as learning experience, 18
mines, 14–15
navigational difficulties, 15
river wrecks, 15–16
U.S. Navy, 12–13
as protocol officer, 9
Storis, USCGC, 7–8
U.S. Coast Guard Academy, 7
U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corps, 6–7
Harshe, Josie E. (SSgt., USAF), 107p
Hassani, Mahmoud, 20
Hawkins, Naomi (Maj., USMC), 52
Hester, Leigh Ann (Sgt., USA), 105p
Higgins, USS, 12
Hooker, Richard, 136
Hope, Bob, 116
Hough, Mike (Lt. Gen., USMC), 55
Huff, Sam W. (Pfc., USA), 3–4
Hussein, Uday and Qusay, 22
I
Iraq. see also Operation Iraqi Freedom
celebratory fire, 59–60
Clements, Jessica Lee (SSgt., USAR), 28–32
current conditions, 183
Grace, Teresa Broadwell (Pfc., USA), 19–23
Huff, Sam W. (Pfc., USA), 3–4
insurgency war, ix
McCoy, Kellie (Capt., USA), 33–36
military police mission, 19
Moore, Rebecca (1st Lt., USMC), 85–96
servicewomen, roles of, ix, 2, 19
Weber, Rosemarie [MGySgt., USMC (Ret.)], 56–65
women, percentage of total troops, 183
Iraqi National Symphony, 61
J
Jackson, Leona [Lt. (jg), USN], 165
James O’Hara, USS, 131–32
Jones, Corrie (Spc., USA), 22
Jones, Kevin J. (TSgt., USAF), 104p
Joseph V. Connolly, Liberty ship, 154
K
Kim, Jaden J. (Capt., USMC), 37–54, 102p
Army ROTC, 38
awards
Air Medals (7), 37
Navy Commendation Medal, 37
childhood and family, 37–38, 54
civilian life/career, return to, 53–54
education, 37–38
F/A-18Ds, 42–43
flight school, 41–42
Green Knights, assignment to, 43–44
ground crews, 53
ground units, support of, 49–50
mandatory crew rest, 46–47
Marine OCS, 38–40
MOS and NFO billets, 40–41
Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), 44, 45–46
Operation Iraqi Freedom, 46–50
Operation Iraqi Freedom II (OIF II), 50
Operation Southern Watch, 46
as protocol officer, 50–53
SERE school, 42
SSgt. Mannis, 39
TBS, 40–41
wizzo, job as, 48–49
Kim Il Sung, 128
Kiska, USCGC, 8–9
Korea
Bradley, Ruby Grace (Col., USA), 138–40
Brosmer, Margaret (Col., USA), 131–36
Brown, Vera (Capt., USAF), 130
Cold War, 127
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, 128
invasion of South Korea by North Korea (25 June 1950), 128
McClure, Virginia May (AFNC), 130
Perry, Margaret Fae (Lt., USAF), 129–30
post-World War II demobilization, women’s services, 127
provisional division of (1945), 127
Republic of Korea, 128
U.N. resolution, 128
Women’s Armed Forces Integration Act, 127
Krueger, Mary Biglow [Maj., USA (M.D.)]
Afghanistan
deployment to, 79–80
as growth experience, 80–81
local community, interaction with, 81
maternal mortality, 83–84
travel to, as single soldier, 84
women, treatment of, 82–83
Assistant Residency Director, Fort Belvoir, 78
childhood and family, 75–76
education
medical school, military scholarship for, 76
premed, 76
men, equality with, 81
Officers’ Advanced Course, 78–79
Officers’ Basic Course, 77
residency (Madigan Hospital at Fort Lewis), 77–78
specialty training, 77
L
Lauwers, Charles, 160
League of Lonely German Women, 162
Lee, Lewis [Sgt. Maj., USMC (Ret.)], 55
Legare (USCGC), 5
Lewis, John T. (Maj. Gen., USA), 145
“The Long Armistice”, 143
Lord, Herman (Maj., USA), 153
Loy, James (Adm., USCG), 9
“Lucky Thirteen”, 133
Lyell, Woodrow (Spc., USA), 21–22
Lynch, Michail (Col., USA), 119
M
MacArthur, Douglas (General of the Army), 128, 132
Mack, Anita T. (Capt., USAF), 107p
Mactan, inner-island steamer, 166
Marine Phoenix, USNS, 136
Marshall, George C. (Gen., USA), 145
Masaryk, Jan, 160
Mason, Ruth (Lt., USN), 116
McAllister, Marti (Sgt., USAF), 120
McClure, Virginia May (AFNC), 130
McCoy, Kellie (Capt., USA), 33–36
ambush, roadside IEDs, small-arms fire, and RPGs, 34
combat, women in, 35
command and stress outlets, 34–35
military career, 36
military police mission, 35–36
paratroopers, 36
people skills, 36
physical fitness standards, 35
rescue, of convoy Soldiers, 34
travel requirements, 33–34
Mc E. Hyde, ferry, 166
McGrath, Amy “Krusty” (Capt., USMC), 50
McNamara, Robert, 119
McSally, Martha (Lt. Col., USAF), 185
Mitchell, Carol J. (Capt., USAF), 107p
Moore, Rebecca (1st Lt., USMC), 85–96
combat, women in, 94
family, military background of, 85
Iraq
Camp Blue Diamond, 85–86
as career highlight, 95
Charette, Holly (Cpl., USMC), loss of, 90–94
Christmas, 94–95
convoy travel, 87–88
daily duties, 86
food, 95
friendships, 95
frightening experiences, 88
global war on terror, being part of, 96
indirect fire, 88–89
searchers, 89–90
Morgan, Julie (Lt., USMC), 50
Morris Jennifer (Capt., USMC), 52
N
New York Times, 158
O
Offutt, Karen Irene (Spc5, USA), 122–26
basic training, 123
childhood and family, 123
enlistment, 123
letter to President Johnson, 123
marriage, 125
military career, 123–24
nursing school, 123
return stateside, 124
veteran’s affairs, activity in, 125
Vietnam
Agent Orange, 125
Certificate of Achievement for Heroic Action, 123
fire rescue of women and children, 122
Long Binh, 124
orphanages, volunteer work at, 124
post-traumatic stress disorders, 126
request for assignment to, 124
Olds, Marion (Chief Nurse, USN), 165
Operation Desert Shield
military women killed, number of, 98
Rossi-Cayton, Marie T. (Maj., USA), 98–99
servicewomen, captured and released
Cornum, Rhonda (Maj., USA), 98
Rathbun-Nealy, Melissa (Sp4, USA), 98
U.N. defensive deployment, 97
Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF)
combat, women in, 2
Kim, Jaden J. (Capt., USMC), 44, 45–46
Sanchez, Sayra Salas (Spc4, USA), 67–74
Operation Iraqi Freedom. see also Iraq
combat, women in, 2
Fisher, Michelle Loftus, (Pfc., USA), 25, 26
Harrison, Holly R. (Lt. Cdr., USCG), 11–18
Kim, Jaden J. (Capt., USMC), 46–50
Orlando, Kim S. (Lt. Col., USA), 21, 22
Owen, Tegan (Lt., USMC), 50
P
Perry, Margaret Fae (Lt., USAF), 129–30
Peterson, John (Commo., USN), 11
Podoski, Barbara Lauwers (Cpl., USA), 160–64
basic training, 161
Czechoslovakian Legation, working for, 161
enlistment, 161
escape to America, at WW II outbreak, 160
Hitler’s life, attempt on, 162
husband’s death, 164
language fluencies, 161
League of Lonely German Women, 162
Liberty of Congress, 163
marriage, to Joseph Junosza Podoski, 163
Office of War Information (OWI), 163
OSS assignments, 161–63
propaganda leaflets, 162
U.S. citizen, becoming, 161
Voice of America, 163
Poffenbarger, Jeff (Lt. Col., USA), 30
President Taylor, SS, 160
Prisoners of War (WW II)
Danner, Dorothy Still [Lt. (jg), USN], 168–69
first taken
Christianson, Lorraine [Lt. (jg), USN], 165
exchange and repatriation of, 165
Fogerty, Virginia [Lt. (jg), USN], 165
Jackson, Leona [Lt. (jg), USN], 165
Olds, Marion (Chief Nurse, USN), 165
Yetter, Doris [Lt. (jg), USN], 165
Hogan, Rosemary, (Capt., USA), 170–72
Nash, Margaret “Peggy” [Lt. (jg), USN], 173–76
Philippines, 165–67
Army nurses taken, 166
Navy nurses taken, 166–67
Tobiason, Reba Whittle (2nd Lt., USA), 177–81
women, number confined as, 165
Purple Heart recipients
Clements, Jessica Lee (SSgt., USAR), 31p, 32
Crumpton, Frances (Lt., USN), 116
Grace, Teresa Broadwell (Pfc., USA), 22
Green, Sheron Lee (Spc5, USA), 120
Mason, Ruth (Lt., USN), 116
Reynolds, Ann Darby [Lt. (jg), USN], 116
Slanger, Frances Y. (2nd Lt., USA), 154
women, listed alphabetically, 193–218
Wooster, Barbara (Lt., USN), 116
R
Ranks and ratings, listed, xvii
Rathbun-Nealy, Melissa (Sp4, USA), 97–100, 105p
burial with full military honors, Arlington National Cemetary, 99
childhood and family, 98
CNN interview, 99
death, in helicopter accident, 99
marriage, to CWO3 John Andrew Cayton, 99
military training, 98
Operation Desert Shield, deployment to, 99
Reynolds, Ann Darby [Lt. (jg), USN], 114–17
childhood and family, 115
military career, post-Vietnam, 116–17
nursing school, 115
orientation classes, 115
Purple Heart, 116
retirement, 116–17
Vietnam
Brink Bachelor Officers Quarters, bombing of, 116
Card, USNS, 115
Catholics and Buddhists, conflicts between, 115
fighting, escalation of, 115–16
Saigon, assignment to, 114–15
Women’s Officer Indoctrination Program, 115
Ridgeway, Matthew (Lt. Gen., USA), 135–36
Risk rules, 1
Rivas, Vincente (Pvt., USA), 153
Rogers, Roy, 121
S
Sanchez, Sayra Salas (Spc4, USA), 66–74
9/11, effects of, 67
Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom)
civilian life/career, return to, 74
combat, women in, 71
family, communication with, 71
first deployment, 67–72
food, 73
Kabul and Kandahar, 69
living conditions, 68–69, 72–73
local community, interaction with, 69–70, 71, 72, 73
mines, 70
rules of engagement, 67–68
second deployment, 72–73
third deployment, 73–74
weather, 70–71
basic training, 67
childhood and family, 66
education, 66
Military Entrance Program Station (MEPS), 67
Top Secret clearance, 67
Sanchez, Tracie (Pvt., USA), 21
Sattler, John F. (Lt. Gen., USMC), 50, 51
Scott, Kate, xi, 4, 5n, 33n, 55n, 66n, 75n, 85n, 114n, 160
Seattle Times, 158
Seidemann, Constance C. (Capt., USA), 110–11
Shoham, Joseph P. (Capt., USA), 150
Slanger, Frances Y. (2nd Lt., USA), 147–55
anti-Semitism in America, 147–55
Army Nurse Corps (ANC), overseas duty, 149
Boston City Hospital School of Nursing, 148–49
burial at home, 154
childhood, in Poland (WW I), 148
D-Day casualties, 147
Elsonborn, Belgium, 150
gravestone epitaph, 154–55
immigration, to U.S., 148
nurse, dream of becoming, 148
Purple Heart, 154
shelling of hospital, 152–53
Stars and Stripes, letter to the editor, 151–52, 153
Utah Beach, post-D-Day landing on, 147, 150
wounding and death of, 153
WW II, U.S. entry into, 149
Stalin, Josef, 134
Stars and Stripes (military newspaper), 150, 151–52, 153
Storis, USCGC, 7–8
Sweezey, Jodie (Capt., USMC), 52
T
Tolliver, Matthew “Sam” (Maj., USMC), 43
Tracey, Patricia (Vice Adm., USN), 55
Truman, Harry S., 128
U
United Nations Security Council, 97
U.S. Agency for International Development, ix
V
Vietnam
combat problems, 109
Doering, Anne Marie (Lt., Col., USA), 112
Duncan, Mildred E. (1st Sgt., USA), 111
gender-specific problems, 109–10
Green, Sheron Lee (Spc5, USA), 119–21
incremental involvement in, 109
medical field, women serving in, 110
military forces, longest deployment of (1961–1973), 111
Offutt, Karen Irene (Spc5, USA), 122–26
Reynolds, Ann Darby [Lt. (jg), USN], 114–16
Seidemann, Constance C. (Capt., USA), 110–11
WAC detachment, 110–11
W
Walker, Mary Edwards (Civil War prisoner), 165
Walker, Walton (Gen., USA), 132, 134, 135
Wallen, Troy (Sgt., USA), 21
Washington Post, 19n
Watts, Carol (Lt., USN), 101p
Weber, Rosemarie [MGySgt., USMC (Ret.)], 55–65
Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), Baghdad accommodations, 58
arrival, 57–58
“Baghdad Diaries”, 59–64
combat, women in, 65
guard support and security, 58–59
Iraqi people, 57
offices and procedures, setting up, 56–57
French National Defense Medal, Silver Award, 55
Meritorious Service Medal, 55
military career, 56
retirement ceremony, 55
Welch, Bob, 153
Weller, Wendy, 110
Westinghouse, Ty (Capt., USMC), 42
William N. Pendleton, 149
Williams, Richard (Col., USA), 107p
Wilson, Eleanor, 37
Women’s Armed Forces Integration Act, 127
The Women’s Memorial, xi, 4, 55, 59, 99, 219
Wooster, Barbara (Lt., USN), 116
World War I
American women, participation in, 144
British WAAC and WRAF, establishment of, 144
deaths and casualties, 143
empires, fall of (post-WW I)
Austro-Hungarian Empire in Eastern Europe, 143
Ottoman Empire in Turkey, 143
Romanov Empire in Czarist Russia, 143
FANYs, 143–44
property damage, 143
VADs, 144
World War II, 145. see also Prisoners of War (WW II)
Anti-Aircraft Artillery (AAA) units, mixed-gender, 145
combat, women in, 145
number of American women serving in, 144–45
Slanger, Frances Y. (2nd Lt., USA), 147–55
“The Long Armistice”, 143
Treaty of Versailles, 143
WAAC, U.S. creation of, 144
WAVES, 144
Women’s Army Corps (WACs), 144
Wrangell, USCGC, 11
Y
Yanks (magazine), 150
Yetter, Doris [Lt. (jg), USN], 165