African-American & Wars
Caribbean Women
Individuals
- Asli Hassan Abade – [The first female pilot in the Somali Air Force - SAF]
- Vernice Armour – [The first African American female combat pilot in the U.S. Armed Forces]
- Lilian Bader – [She was one of the first black women to join the British armed forces]
- Jill E. Brown – [The African American woman to be chosen by the US for training as a military pilot and also the first to serve as a pilot for a major US airline]
- Willa B. Brown – [co-founded the Cornelius Coffey School of Aeronautics, the first black-owned and operated private flight training academy in the U.S]
- Joan Craigwell – San Diego Women’s Hall of Fame Trailblazer 2009
Individuals Cont.
- Anna Mac Clarke – [The first African American woman to be a commanding officer of an otherwise all European regiment]
- Demetria N. Elosiebo – [the first female African-American pilot in D.C. Army National Guard history]
- Hazel Johnson – [The first African American woman to become a general in the U.S. Army]
- Shoshana Johnson – [The first African-American female prisoner of war in the military history of the United States.]
- Zimasa Mabela – [Africa’s first black female to captain a combat class vessel in South Africa’s Navy]
- Connie Mark – [Served as a medical secretary in the Auxiliary Territorial Service in World War II]
- Raye Montague – [She wrote a computer program that revolutionized US Naval ship design]
- Marcella A. Ng – [The first black woman military pilot (Army) in 1979]
- Cathay Williams – [The only known female Buffalo Soldier]