CW4 Esther Stewart

Mar 5, 2019 | Army

A study on black WACs published in 1963 lists Stewart as the only black female warrant officer on active duty at that time. Stewart would go on to serve in Vietnam as a cryptographic technician with the 1st Signal Brigade from 1971-1972. She retired in the late 70s as...

MSG Catharine Deitch

Nov 16, 2018 | Army

Catharine Deitch was born in Pennsylvania in 1919 and vividly remembers the day in 1929 when the banks closed and the Depression started. Her family had cultivated 28 acres of corn, wheat, raspberries, strawberries, asparagus, etc. and they had apple, cherry and black...

WAC Dorothy-Mae (Hinson) Brandt

Sep 26, 2018 | Army

Strong love of country drove young WAC to enlist at 16. In 1944, Dorothy-Mae (Hinson) Brandt was four years too young to join her five older brothers serving in America’s armed forces during World War II. Like the estimated 100,000 underage veterans who served in...

MAJ Charity Adams

Jul 19, 2018 | Army

Major Charity Adams served as the Battalion Commander of the only African-American Women’s Army Corps (WAC) unit to be deployed overseas during World War II. Commanding the 6888th Central Postal Battalion, Adams and her 800 troops were stationed in Birmingham,...

Maj Gen Jeanne M. Holm

Jun 15, 2018 | Air Force, Army

Jeanne M. Holm was the first woman in the armed forces to be promoted to the rank of Major General (1973), and this was only one of her many firsts. She served in the Army from 1942-1945 and transferred to the Air Force in 1948, when a new law integrated women in the...