She was also a star government witness at a number of smugglers' trials, including the famous I'm Alone case. In that effort she was quite successful and is credited with 'breaking' the code of over 12,000 different encoded radio messages. Friedman spearheaded the effort to break their codes. Liquor smugglers frequently made use of radios to coordinate their activities and began to encode their messages and Ms. Friedman in 1924 and then detailed her for duty with the Coast Guard.

cryptology.' While not a member of the Coast Guard per se, the Federal Prohibition Bureau hired Ms. Elizebeth Smith Friedman, described by the National Security Agency as a 'wife, mother, writer, Shakespeare enthusiast, cryptanalyst, and pioneer in U.S.She served in that capacity until she was honorably discharged on Novemwith the rating of Electrician, First Class. Hazard was enlisted in the regular Coast Guard as an Acting Electrician, Third Class, for duty as a telegraph operator at Coast Guard Headquarters. For some reason as yet unexplained, unlike the Navy Reserve Yeomanttes who were detailed to the Coast Guard, Ms. She was a trained radio and telegraph operator who applied for a position in the Communications Division of the Coast Guard at Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, D.C. effort to support the Allies during World War I. Myrtle Hazard enlisted in the Regular Coast Guard on Januduring the height of the U.S.The Navy assigned twin sisters Genevieve and Lucille Baker of the Naval Coastal Defense Reserve to the Coast Guard, becoming two of the first uniformed women to serve in the Coast Guard.Lime Rock Lighthouse Keeper Ida Lewis became the first woman to be awarded a Gold Lifesaving Medal.Augustine Lighthouse in Florida, becoming the first Hispanic-American woman to serve in the Coast Guard and the first Hispanic-American woman to oversee a federal shore installation. Maria Mestre de los Dolores) served as the Keeper of the St.

From 1859 to 1862 Maria Andreu (a.k.a.

Civilian women continued as lighthouse keepers until 1947.

Women were first officially assigned as keepers in the Lighthouse Service beginning in the 1830s although many wives and daughters of keepers had previously served as keepers when their husbands or fathers became ill.

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