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• 602nd Aircraft Warning Service Women’s Army Corps Filter Company, [1]

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• Aline Lapicque Aline Lapicque-Perrin (1899-1991), French drawer and member of the Resistance, Righteous among the Nations. (File:Aline Lapicque-Perrin jul.1921.png)
• Ange Laycock British sports person and soldier born 1982
• Annie Hartelius Swedish officer (1862-1921)

B

• Ineva Reilly Baldwin (1904-2000), US. Coast Guard lieutenant from Wisconsin, [2]
• Air Commandant Dame Henrietta Barnet, 1956–1959 Women's Royal Air Force
• Commandant Daphne Blundell, 1970–1973 Women's Royal Naval Service
• Line Bond, first Danish woman fighter pilot, [3]
• Karen Fuller Brannen, first US Marine Corps female strike fighter to earn "wings of gold" [4]

C

• Christine M. Cook (b 1956), first woman of the Ohio national guard to assume command of 2 separate battalions and then a regiment; director of the Ohio veterans home, Ohio Women's Hall of Fame
• Commandant Elizabeth Craig-McFeely, 1979–1982 Women's Royal Naval Service
• Oleta Crain, major in the Army, administrator of the women's bureau for the US dept of labor, Colorado Women's Hall of Fame
• Gertrude Crawford, 1918 Women's Royal Air Force
• Cécile Rol-Tanguy French resistance fighter (born 1919)

D

• Commandant Dame Jean Davies, 1960–1964 Women's Royal Naval Service
• Commandant Dame Margaret Drummond, 1964–1966 Women's Royal Naval Service
• Lillian Dunlap, (1922-2003), Brigadier General of Us Army, Texas Women's Hall of Fame

E

• Connie Engel/Connie J. Engel, first woman T-38 instructor and part of the Space shuttle program, [5]

F

• Commandant Marjorie Fletcher, 1985–1988 Women's Royal Naval Service
• Agnes Fong Sock Har first woman officer in the Singapore Air Force, pictures
• Jane Foster (pilot), one of the first women in Canada qualified to fly the CF-18 [6]

G

• GenderForce, an all-women Swedish military taskforce working with the UN to prevent violence against women. (in Swedish), [7], [8]
• Ella Elvira Gibson/Ella Elvira Hobart Gibson, first female US Military Chaplain, [9], [10]
• Ozra Asgar Gilani, first woman in Imperial Iranian Air Force, [11], [12]
• Ethel Gray – Nursing sister and army matron^[1]

H

• Bernice Falk Haydu, WASP and utility and engineering test pilot, [13], [14], [15]
• Air Commodore Dame Felicity Hill, 1966–1969 Women's Royal Air Force
• Diana Holland (military), Brigadier General and Commandant of the Army corp of cadets at West Point. [16]

I

• Charlotte Isaksson, creator of GenderForce, senior Gender advisor to the Swedish Armed Forces, interview, [17]

J

• Janet Jennings (1842-1917), known as "the Angel of the Seneca" for her heroic works as a nurse during the Spanish-American War, [18]
• Air Commodore Shirley Jones, 1986–1989 Women's Royal Air Force

K

• Commandant Dame Marion Kettlewell, 1966–1970 Women's Royal Naval Service

L

• Commandant Anthea Larken, 1988–1991 Women's Royal Naval Service

• Kathy La Sauce, Air Force pilot, first woman to pilot a C-141 Starlifter, first woman aircraft commander at Norton Air Force Base, [19], [20]
• Dorothy Swain Lewis, WASP, artist, teacher, [21], [22], [23]
• Barbara Erickson London, WASP pilot, [24], [25], [26]
• Catherine Lundy - heroine from the Battle of Lundy's Lane (part of the War of 1812); [27]

M

• Mary Magdalene Maga/Maggie Maga, aviator mechanic for the Navy, [28]
• Patricia Malone (aviator) (1924-2008), a NAVY WAVE, [29], [30]
• Air Commodore Philippa Marshall, 1969–1973 Women's Royal Air Force
• Amanda Mathew, the first woman to lead an American deployed combat arms platoon
• Commandant Vonla McBride, 1976–1979 Women's Royal Naval Service
• Rebecca Mpagi first woman pilot in the Ugandan military [31]
• Betty Mullis/Betty L. Mullis, Major General in the US Reserves. [32], part of the Women in Aviation, International hall of fame, [33]

N

• The National Association of Black Military Women, [34]
• Parvaneh Noorvar (Major and physician), first woman to be a senior officer in the Imperial Iranian Air Force, [35]

O

• Kim Olson, retired US Air Force colonel, Texas Women's Hall of Fame, [36], [37]

P

• Pallas Athene Award, [38]
• Park Ji Won (pilot), air force officer and one of 3 to become South Korea's first women fighter pilots [39]
• Park Ji Yeon (pilot), air force officer and one of 3 to become South Korea's first women fighter pilots [40]
• Deanie Parrish, WASP pilot, [41], [42], [43]
• Nancy Parrish, founder of Protect Our Defenders (2011), the only national human rights organization focused on sexual assault in the US military. [44], [, [45]]
• Betty Haas Pfister/Elizabeth Pfister/Betty Pfister, WASP and lifelong career person in aviation, [46], [47], [48], [49]
• Dessie Smith Prescott, first woman pilot in Florida, served in women's army corps in WWII, Florida Women's Hall of Fame
• Pyun Bo Ra, air force officer and one of 3 to become South Korea's first women fighter pilots [50]

Q

R

• Air Commodore Helen Renton, 1980–1986 Women's Royal Air Force
• Brenda E. Robinson, Lt. Col, first black woman to earn wings of gold: naval aviator, [51], [52], [53], [54]
• Commandant Dame Nancy Robertson, 1954–1958 Women's Royal Naval Service

S

• Anna (Nan) Schofield/Anna Schofield – One of the first Australian Army nurses to serve in the Middle East during World War II; Author^[2]
• Dawn Seymour, WASP B-17 pilot, [55], [56]
• Air Commandant Dame Anne Stephens, [https://www.wai.org/pioneers/2009/dawn-seymour1959–1962 Women's Royal Air Force
• Katherine-Anne Stewart (Class of 1985) – First female Commanding Officer of the 7th Signal Regiment; One of only three women COs in the Australian Army^[3]
• Commandant Patricia Swallow, 1982–1985 Women's Royal Naval Service

T

• Commandant Mary Talbot, 1973–1976 Women's Royal Naval Service
• Karen Tan Puay Kiow, first woman colonel in the Singapore Armed forces, Singapore women's hall of fame
• Ruthy Tu, first Chinese woman licensed to fly, 1932, trained in Chinese Army. [57]

U

• UPT Class 77-08 of Williams Air Force Base first all women class of pilots and navigators, 1976, [58]

V

• Adrianna Vorderbruggen, first openly gay woman killed in combat. [59]

W

• Florene Miller Watson, WASP pilot, [60], [61], [62]
• Ethel Weed - American soldier, Women's Information Officer (WIO) of the Allied Forces during the U.S. occupation of Japan following World War II; played a key role in the formation of the majority of policies regarding women; pushed for universal suffrage for women and helped to establish the Women's and Minor's Bureau of the Ministry of Labor, among other feats; see James L. McClain's Japan: A Modern History, pp. 526–561; and Yuki Tsuchiya's Democratizing the Japanese Family: The Role of Civil Information and Education Section in the Allied Occupation (1945-1952), pp. 142–144
• Betty Jane Williams, [63], WASP, [64]
• Mary Anna Martin Wyall/Marty Wyall, WASP, [65], [66]

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Y

Z

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General reference

• Cook, Bernard, ed. (2006). Women and War: A Historical Encyclopedia from Antiquity to the Present. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1851097708.
• Edy, Carolyn M. (2017). The Woman War Correspondent, the U.S. Military, and the Press, 1846-1947. Lexington Books. ISBN 9781498539272. OCLC 958798216.
• Frank, Lisa Tendrich, ed. (2013). An Encyclopedia of American Women at War: From the Home Front to the Battlefields. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1598844436.
• Holmstedt, Kirsten A. (2016). Soul Survivors: Stories of Wounded Women Warriors and the Battles They Fight Long After They've Left the War Zone. Stackpole Books. ISBN 9780811713795.
• Pennington, Reina (2003). Amazons to Fighter Pilots: A Biographical Dictionary of Military Women. Greenwood. ISBN 978-0313291975.

Civil War (1861-1865)

• Eggleston, Larry G. Women in the Civil War: Extraordinary Stories of Soldiers, Spies, Nurses, Doctors, Crusaders, and Others. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2003. ISBN 0786414936
• Harper, Judith E. Women During the Civil War: An Encyclopedia. New York: Routledge, 2004. ISBN 041593723X
• Massey, Mary Elizabeth. Women in the Civil War. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994. ISBN 0803282133
• Toler, Pamela D., and Ridley Scott. Heroines of Mercy Street: The Real Nurses of the Civil War. New York: Back Bay Books, Little Brown and Company, 2017. ISBN 0316392065

Mexican Revolution and Spanish Civil War

• Linhard, Tabea Alexa. Fearless Women in the Mexican Revolution and the Spanish Civil War. Columbia, Mo: University of Missouri Press, 2005. ISBN 0826216110

World War I

• Atwood, Kathryn J. Women Heroes of World War I: 16 Remarkable Resisters, Soldiers, Spies, and Medics. Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, Incorporated, 2014. ISBN 9781613746868
• Cobbs Hoffman, Elizabeth. The Hello Girls: America's First Women Soldiers. Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2017. ISBN 9780674971479
• De Vries, Susanna. Australian Heroines of World War One: Gallipoli, Lemnos and the Western Front. Chapel Hill, Qld: Pirgos Press, 2013. ISBN 9780980621648
• Ebbert, Jean, and Marie-Beth Hall. The First, the Few, the Forgotten: Navy and Marine Corps Women in World War I. Annapolis, Md: Naval Institute Press, 2002. ISBN 155750203X
• Gavin, Lettie. American Women in World War I: They Also Served. Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado, 1997. ISBN 087081432X
• Shipton, Elisabeth. Female Tommies: The Frontline Women of the First World War. Stroud, Gloucestershire [England] : History Press, 2014. ISBN 9780752491431
• Stoff, Laurie. They Fought for the Motherland: Russia's Women Soldiers in World War I and the Revolution. Lawrence, Kan: University Press of Kansas, 2006. ISBN 0700614850

World War II

• Cottam, Kazimiera J. (2006). Women in War and Resistance: Selected Biographies of Soviet Women Soldiers. Focus Publishing. ISBN 978-1585101603.
• Kaminski, Theresa (2016). Angels of the Underground: The American Women Who Resisted the Japanese in the Philippines in World War II. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199928248.
• Krylova, Anna (2011). Soviet Women in Combat: A History of Violence on the Eastern Front. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1107699403.
• Merry, Lois K. (2010). Women Military Pilots of World War II: A History with Biographies of American, British, Russian and German Aviators. McFarland. ISBN 978-0786444410.
• Pennington, Reina (2002). Wings, Women, and War: Soviet Airwomen in World War II Combat. University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0700615544.
• Weatherford, Doris (2010). American Women During World War II: An Encyclopedia. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415994750. OCLC 277196093.

Vietnam War

• Heikkila, Kim (2011). Sisterhood of War: Minnesota Women in Vietnam. Minnesota Historical Society Press. ISBN 9780873516372.
• Norman, Elizabeth M. (1990). Women at War: the Story of Fifty Military Nurses who Served in Vietnam. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0812282493.
• Walker, Keith (1986). A Piece of My Heart: the Stories of 26 American Women who Served in Vietnam. Presidio Press. ISBN 0891412417.
• Zeinert, Karen (2000). The Valiant Women of the Vietnam War. Millbrook Press. ISBN 0585329362.

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