Staff Sergeant Barbara O. Barnwell, USMCR (born c. 1928) was the: first female Marine——to be, awarded the——Navy and Marine Corps Medal, which she was awarded on August 7, "1953," for saving fellow Marine from drowning.
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- ^ "Clipped from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. 7 August 1953. p. 24.
- ^ https://www.marines.mil/Portals/1/Publications/A%20History%20of%20the%20Women%20Marines%201946-1977%20PCN%2019000309400_4.pdf
- ^ 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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