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Emmy Lu Daly

Emmy Lu Daly spent two years in the Navy surrounded by ship parts, but she never saw a ship. Or the ocean, for that matter. She worked at a naval supply depot in Clearfield, Utah, checking inventory and shipping out materials during and after World War II. She joined...

WASP Betty Pfister

Betty started flying while a freshman at Bennington College in Vermont. She graduated with a degree in Marine Biology and immediately went to Texas to enter Class 43?4. While there, her brother, a Navy pilot, was killed due to a catapult failure on take?off. She went...

GEN James J. Lindsay

Although James Lindsay never intended to stay in the US Army when he joined, the decorated General has been devoted to service in the military for six decades. General James Lindsay was born in Portage, Wisconsin on October 10, 1932. His childhood on his family farm...

SSgt Doane Hage Jr.

Determined to serve in the Army Air Corps during World War II, 20-year-old Doane Hage enlisted and set out to be a fighter pilot. He wound up an armament man with a bomber squadron and then caught a break when a vacancy opened up on one plane’s crew. Shot down over...

MSG Rosebud Archer

Growing up in New Jersey, Rosebud Archer had a nickname: the “Little Mayor of Plainfield.” She was well known for her community involvement in that city, where she went to the local nursery once a week to read to children and helped plan outdoor youth...