Beatings the odds.
Captain Della H. Raney, the first black nurse to report to duty in the World War Two.
The first female F-16 fighter pilot, Second Lieutenant Kristin Bass.
Women electric welders at Hog Island shipyard in 1918. These were the first women to be engaged in ship construction in the United States.
The first black man to enlist in the Marines, Howard P. Perry.
