Alaska Native SPAR - The Story of Seaman First Class Sophia Thadei
November 15, 2024
November 15, 2024
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Coast Guard issued the following news:
By Donna Vojvodich, Historian, SPARS Stories History Program
On Jan. 1, 1944, tragedy struck the Coast Guard Women's Reserve (SPARS) in Charleston, South Carolina. A young seaman serving as a telephone operator died in a Coast Guard ambulance enroute to the Navy hospital. She was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.
Who was she? Lacking a name to . . .
By Donna Vojvodich, Historian, SPARS Stories History Program
On Jan. 1, 1944, tragedy struck the Coast Guard Women's Reserve (SPARS) in Charleston, South Carolina. A young seaman serving as a telephone operator died in a Coast Guard ambulance enroute to the Navy hospital. She was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.
Who was she? Lacking a name to . . .