Ruth Harman Walraven was a trailblazing female pilot in the mid-20th century.

Mildred Fish-Harnack was the only American woman to die by Adolf Hitler's direct order for spying on Germany during World War II.

Ruth Gruber was a journalist and humanitarian known for her work documenting the lives of refugees.

Dickey Chapelle was the first female American war correspondent to parachute with American troops and the first killed covering combat.

Before Ineva Reilly Baldwin championed the “Wisconsin Idea,” she was a U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant commander during World War II—the highest rank ever attained by a woman at that time.