Lenah Sutcliffe HIGBEE/NAVY NURSE CORPS PIONEER

摘要

On 13 November 1944, for the first time in history, the U.S. Navy named a warship after a woman: Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee, the second superintendent of the Navy Nurse Corps (NNC) and first woman to receive the Navy Cross. The destroyer, the USS Higbee (DD-806), mirrored her namesake's resilient, unwavering, and energetic nature, earning an unprecedented eight bronze battle stars in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam.1