#susan ahn cuddy

[valkyries-things]

LT. SUSAN AHN CUDDY // GUNNERY OFFICER

“She was the first female Gunnery Officer of any ethnicity in the US Navy. She was the eldest daughter of Korean independence activist Ahn Chang-Ho. She joined the Navy in 1942, and served until 1946, reaching the rank of lieutenant. She was the first Asian-American woman to join the US Navy.”

#female history #war history

[diioonysus]

women through history | asian americans

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[navyhistory]

#AAPIHM17: Not only was Susan Ahn Cuddy the first Asian American woman to join the Navy, she was the first female aerial gunnery officer.  Image: PORT HUENEME, Calif. (May 9, 2015) Susan Ahn Cuddy, a former Navy lieutenant, meets with U.S. Navy Seabee Museum Education Specialist Hanako Wakatsuki after a guest presentation honoring Ahn Cuddy at the Seabee Museum. The presentation was part of the museum's Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month program. Ahn Cuddy was the first Asian American woman to serve in the armed forces when she joined the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) during WWII. (U.S. Navy photo by Aramis X. Ramirez/Released)

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[gahdamnpunk]

Susan Ahn Cuddy y’all!

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[womenruntheworld]

Susan Ahn Cuddy: one badass mother

[yomyomf]

Susan Ahn Cuddy: The first female gunnery officer and first Asian American woman in the U.S. navy. 

#Shepersisted #Susan Ahn Cuddy #yomyomf #asian american

[officialhistoryandshit]

Lieutenant Susan Ahn Cuddy faced a great deal of sexism in her career. "A lot of people thought that women didn't belong in the service. That made us try harder," Cuddy told biographer John Cha, author of Willow Tree Shade: The Susan Ahn Cuddy Story (2002). #navalhistory #ushistory #wwii #womeninthenavy #history #womeninthemilitary #navy #usnavy #kickasswomen #kickass #herhistory #wcw #womeninhistoryshouldntbeamystery #womenshistory #hero #womeninhistory #koreanwomen #americanhero #icon #women #historicfigure #historymakers #historymaker #historydaily #dailyhistory #historygeek #historynerd #historybuff https://www.instagram.com/p/CTADzYrMHks/?utm_medium=tumblr

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[faithnfrivolity]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Ahn_Cuddy

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Susan Ahn Cuddy, the first female gunnery officer in the US navy, and her husband Frank celebrating their first wedding anniversary (1948)

[nightgeist-podcast]

#ChallengeAccepted ... Please read about these three badass women who said to themselves challenge accepted when the odds were stacked against them. Susan Ahn Cuddy - Despite facing overwhelming discrimination as a woman and as an Asian American living in the United States following Pearl Harbor, She became the first Asian American woman to join the U.S. Navy. Cuddy became a Link Trainer, instructing aviators in air combat tactics; later, she would become the first female gunnery officer in the U.S. Navy, teaching naval aviators how to fire a .50-caliber machine gun. She would retire from the Navy as a lieutenant and would go on to work for U.S. Navy Intelligence, the Library of Congress and the National Security. Mary Ellen Pleasant - In the 1800s, Pleasant became one of the first African-American female self-made millionaires in the U.S. despite the significant obstacles she faced as black woman. Pleasant employed her inherent savvy, building a massive investment portfolio that was reportedly worth as much as $30 million at one time — a fortune that would make her close to a billionaire in today's value. She put her fortune to use aiding abolitionist causes across the country while helping slaves escape through the Underground Railroad and settle down in free states. Marie Curie - 1903 officially became the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in physics (along with Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel). In 1911, Marie went down in history as the second person to earn the Nobel Prize twice, this time in chemistry for her work with radium and polonium. She then became the first woman to teach at Sorbonne and the first woman to hold a full science professorship at a university. By 1910 she had written and published her 1,000-word Treatise on Radioactivity, summarizing the progress in radioactivity since her first observations in 1897” (Sheffield, xix-xx). Marie extended her brilliance by creating portable X-ray machines to be used on the battlefields of World War I and donating to philanthropic causes. https://www.instagram.com/p/CDMQyJ3Jlmf/?igshid=1b1xo32grwa07

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[bradstarks]

"She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted." Susan Ahn Cuddy. First female gunnery officer & first Asian American woman in the US NAVY. #Onward #Resist #ShePersisted #SheWillAlwaysPersist

#shepersisted #shewillalwayspersist #onward #resist

[arewedancer]

Susan Ahn Cuddy is believed to be the first Asian American female U.S. Navy officer and its first female gunnery officer during World War II.  

Rising to the rank of lieutenant, she later went on to work for U.S. Navy Intelligence, the Library of Congress and the National Security Agency.

She was one of the nation's oldest living Korean Americans born in the U.S. and her parents were among the first Koreans to immigrate to the United States, arriving in 1902.

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