Important Women in Military History

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Bea Arthur

She is mainly known for her roles on popular TV shows "The Golden Girls" and "Maude". She enlisted into the Marine Corps. at the age of 21 in early 1943. She was one of the first members of the Women's Reserves, she drove military trucks and was a typist.

General Ann E. Dunwoody

Dunwoody joined the Army in 1974 and by 1975 she was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Women's Army Corps. She was the first woman to serve as a four-star general in both the U.S. armed forces and Army.Her biggest impact was as a commander of the Army Material Command also known as AMC. She was one of the largest commands in the Army  which employed more than 69,000 people in the U.S. and 145 other countries.

Grace Murray Hopper 

Her work in the U.S. Navy from 1943-1966, is legendary among computer scientists and mathematicians. She founded the COBOL programming language in her early days in the military. This was essentially the first compiler, it allowed programmers to store codes on magnetic tape and recall them when needed.

Eillen Collins 

Colonel Colleens was in the Air Force in 1979 to 2006. In 1995, she became the first woman to pilot a space shuttle and in 1995 she became the first woman shuttle commander. Collins completed four successful shuttle missions by the time she retired in 2006.

Harriet Tubman

She is best known for getting slaves to freedom with the Underground Railroad in the 1850s. Tubman worked for the Union during the Civil War as a nurse, cook and spy.  In addition to that she was the first woman to lead a military expedition.