biography
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Duerk, Alene (Bertha)
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1920– )
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| biography:
| US naval officer, born in Defiance, Ohio, USA. A naval nurse during World War 2 and the Korean War, she became a captain (1967), director of the Navy Nurse Corps (1970), and the first woman admiral (1972). |
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