Norma Rambow

Jul 29, 2018 | Marines

“It was just the thing to do.” Norma Rambow, now 94, saw no option other than joining the military after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941. She said she would have reported for duty the day after the attack on the American naval base, but at 18, she...

Emmy Lu Daly

Jul 27, 2018 | Navy

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

Jul 26, 2018 | Air Force, Army

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...

SSgt Doane Hage Jr.

Jul 24, 2018 | Air Force

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...

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,...