Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel, 1798 - 2007. Official Military Personnel Files, 1885 - 1998. Walsh Loretta -- [Service Number] 001627600, NV13765066.
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Walsh, Loretta Perfectus, 1896-1925
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Loretta Perfectus Walsh Bowman (April 22, 1896 – August 17, 1925), sometimes signed and written as "Loretto", became the first American active-duty Navy woman, the first woman to enlist in the U.S. Navy, and the first woman allowed to serve as a woman in any of the United States armed forces, as anything other than as a nurse, when she enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve on March 17, 1917. Walsh subsequently became the first woman U.S. Navy petty officer when she was sworn in as Chief Yeoman on M...
