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Staff Sergeant Barbara O. Barnwell, USMCR (born c. 1928) [1] was the first female Marine to be awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal, which she was awarded on August 7, 1953, for saving a fellow Marine from drowning. [2] [3]

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  1. "Clipped from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. 7 August 1953. p. 24.
  2. https://www.marines.mil/Portals/1/Publications/A%20History%20of%20the%20Women%20Marines%201946-1977%20PCN%2019000309400_4.pdf
  3. 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.