"It is a delightful feeling, going as fast as you can in the dark" -Susan Travers
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JUDY McFARLAND (d. 2000s)
WWII - U.S. NAVY, WAVES Link Trainer Instructor (blind flying)
WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service), by Allison Veselka, Assistant at the Barnes County Museum in Valley City, North Dakota
"The Navy has given us a lot of opportunities. This is another one and I would like to be in on it. I have no choice as to location - wherever I can best do a job." - Judy McFarland
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ETHELYN SMEDSHAMMER PAULSON [1925- ]
WWII, U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps Program
Ethelyn Smedshammer Paulson, by Allison Veselka, Assistant at the Barnes County Museum in Valley City, North Dakota
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KYSTYNA SKARBERK | aka CHRISTINE GRANVILLE [1908-1952]
WWII - British Agent, Special Operations Executive (S.O.E.)
Polish Spy
by Miss Cellania, Mental Floss
"Christine did not live, or love, as most people do. She lived boundlessly, as generous as she could be cruel, prepared to give her life at any moment for a worthy cause, but rarely sparing a thought for the many casualties that fell in her wake." ― Clare Mulley, The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville
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HARRIET ZETTERBERG (Margolies) [ d. 1989]
WWII, Lawyer, War Crimes Commission, U.S. State Department
Harriet Zetterberg, by Allison Veselka, Assistant at the Barnes County Museum in Valley City, North Dakota
"It's so important that people should realize that individuals can't get away with planning and executing a program of the kind the Nazis planned and put into operation. It makes me feel inadequate to express the vastness of Nazi crime."- Harriet Zetterberg
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COLONEL RUBY BRADLEY [1907 - 2002]
WWII- Colonel, US Army Nurse Corps
POW Nurse,
by Miss Cellania, Mental Floss
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PEARL WITHERINGTON [1914 - 2008]
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WOMEN IN WAR: The Real-life Agent Carters
Non-FictionRank #353 in NON FICTION As a salute to all the many women who fought in World War II, at home, in secret, in the service, we give you this collection of stories of real-life women. Like Agent Peggy Carter, too often their sacrifice and service was...
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