Barbara O. Barnwell
Staff Sergeant Barbara Olive Barnwell, USMCR (born c. 1928) [1] was the first female Marine to be awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal, which she was awarded on August 7, 1953, for saving a fellow Marine from drowning in the Atlantic Ocean near Camp Lejeune in 1952.[2] She was born in Kansas City.
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- ^ "Clipped from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. 7 August 1953. p. 24.
- ^ Lacy, Linda (2004). We are Marines!: World War I to the Present. Women Marines Association. p. 129. ISBN 1-59975-887-3. Stories of women Marines by women Marines.
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