During World War 1 nearly 11,000 women who weren’t nurses served in the U.S. Navy in non-combatant roles. You can read about them here.
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I have previously written about the women who served in the US Navy during WW1. You can read about that by clicking here.
I didn’t realize when I wrote that piece that fourteen of these ‘Yeomanettes’ were African-American women. You can read about them by clicking here.