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A Comet, a Chick, a star

Richmond native played girls baseball in the 1940s

Hand Helen “Gig” Smith a baseball, and her face lights up like a scoreboard.

“Oh, boy!” she beams, taking a firm grip and simulating a throw in her comfortable studio apartment at Westminster Canterbury Richmond.

It may have been awhile, years perhaps, since Smith wrapped her fingers around the laces. But it’s springtime. Time for baseball.

And at 86, Smith — a retired Richmond art teacher, World War II Army veteran and board member of the foundation that supports the Army Women’s Museum in Fort Lee — is still in a league of her own.
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Retired Brigadier General Elizabeth Paschel Hoisington, seventh director of the Women’s Army Corps (WAC), and one of the first two female Army generals, died Aug. 21, 2007. Click here to read more

Daughter Accepts Silver Star Her World War I Nurse Mother Earned

Aug 02, 2007
By Fred W. Baker III

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Aug. 2, 2007) - While Army nurse Linnie Leckrone was patching up wounded Soldiers in France on the front lines of World War I, she most likely wasn’t thinking that her actions one day would merit the military’s third-highest award for valor in the face of the enemy. Click here to read the full article>

Article about new exhibit at Army Women’s Museum featured in Quartermaster Professional Bulletin...

U.S. Army Women’s Museum Develops New Permanent Display

By Judith M. Matteson
Director, U.S. Army Women’s Museum
Page 44

Click here to view the PDF version of the publication. Other articles of interest include: ‘Bands of Brothers’ -Quartermaster Museum’s New Display on History of U.S. Army Bands (pg. 42) and Remembering September 11, 2001 (pg. 46).

Heroes Turn Out for Exhibit Opening at Army Women’s Museum

By Staff Sgt. Jon Soucy, USA
American Forces Press Service

FORT LEE, Va., Feb. 5, 2007 – The first woman to win the Silver Star Medal for direct actions against an enemy force turned out for the opening of the Global War on Terrorism exhibit Feb. 3 at the U.S. Army Women’s Museum here. Click here to read the full article>

Women in combat

February 12, 2007
PRI’s The World

There’s a new exhibition at the United States Army Women’s Museum at Fort Lee in Virginia. It recognizes the contributions of the women who’ve served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Click here to read the full article>

On the Washington Post website

By Donna St. George

Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, December 31, 2006; Page A18

FORT LEE, Va. — In a little-known museum tucked away on the grounds of an Army post near Richmond, a memorial wall just inside the door quietly announces a profound change in the nation’s fighting force.Click here to read the full article>