Loretta Perfectus Walsh, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Chief Yeoman, United States Navy
Date of Birth: 22-Apr-1896
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Date of Death: 06-Aug-1925
Profession: military personnel
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Loretta Perfectus Walsh
- Loretta Perfectus Walsh (April 22, 1896 – August 6, 1925) became the first American active-duty Navy woman, the first woman to enlist in the U.S.
- Navy, and the first woman allowed to serve as a woman in any of the United States armed forces, as anything other than as a nurse, when she enlisted in the U.S.
- Naval Reserve on March 17, 1917.
- Walsh subsequently became the first woman U.S.
- Navy petty officer when she was sworn in as Chief Yeoman on March 21, 1917.
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