Women in Wartime

Friedländer did not begin speaking about her experiences until the age of 88.

Cummings was both a national swimming champion and a World War II pilot.

She co-founded the nation’s first nurse practitioner program at the University of Colorado.

She was the first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after desegregation.

Despite electric shock and beatings, Riffaud would not reveal French Resistance info to the Nazis.

Ebert’s quest to find the soldier who rescued her became a social media sensation.

At 61, Davis returned to college, earning her master’s degree from New York University.

She released her first album just before she turned 90.

She built airplanes until she was 95 years old.

She went into architecture after a brief career as an aviator.