Recognition
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Native Women Veterans
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Recognition
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| 1. | According to a 1943 article in the "Christian Science Monitor" Gailya and Thelma Barton, Cherokee sisters, were WAAC's who served with the Aircraft Warning Service. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| 2. | Pearl Street Burks, Naticoke, served in the Women's Army Corps from 1962 - 1965 as a medical specialist. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| 3. | Pvt. Thomasita Chavez, San Juan Pueblo, was a field musician in the Marine Corps during WW ll . There is a picture of her playing the bugle. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| 4. | Patricia Curry, Seneca, was a Naval 2nd Class Petty Officer in Avionics during the Vietnam era. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| 5. | Marilyn Kemp, Quinault, served as a clerk-typist from 1970-1973 in the Women's Army Corp. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| 6. | Grace Thorpe, daughter of the famous athlete Jim Thorpe, was a WAC during WW ll. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| 7. | The first Indian woman to graduate from West Point was Brigitte Wahwassuck, Potawatomi. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| 8. | Corporal Lillian Lincheze, Navajo, served as a WAC recruiter during WW ll in Gallup, New Mexico. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| 9. | Currently there are Indian women serving aboard the aircraft carriers the USS Roosevelt and the USS Stennis. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| 10. | PFC. Blanche West, Chippewa, served as a WAC in England during WW ll. | ||||||||||||||||||
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