Lena Andrews

Dec 8, 2024 | seattletimes.com | Lena Andrews

According to most official accounts, Georgia Watson did not exist. As part of a highly secretive Army unit, composed almost entirely of women responsible for defending D.C. against an air attack, Watson had been instructed to say nothing to anyone about her unit. “We did not exist on paper, had no table of organization, and could officially be issued nothing,” she wrote years later in her memoir. The unit was known only as Battery X. Although Battery X did not exist on paper, its work was very real.

Dec 7, 2024 | msn.com | Lena Andrews

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Oct 4, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Lena Andrews

Military analyst Lena Andrews debuts with Valiant Women (Mariner Books), an enlightening history spotlighting combat support by women in WWII. In addition to working in factories, offices, and depots around the country, more than 350,000 women served in all-female army corps. They brought tenacity, patience, and charismatic leadership to their roles, Andrews writes, but they earned half of what men were paid, were not assigned ranks, and were subject to a code of conduct stricter than the men’s.

Aug 25, 2023 | journalgazette.net | Shannon Schmidt |Lena Andrews |Mattie Kahn |Melissa Sevigny

These works on women in history are newly available through the Allen County Public Library. “The First Lady of World War II: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Daring Journey to the Frontlines and Back”by Shannon McKenna Schmidt A veteran journalist brings to life, in intimate detail, the untold story of first lady Eleanor Roosevelt’s five-week mission to the South Pacific to support and report back on the troops on the front lines during World War II while Americans believed she was secluded at home.

Aug 7, 2023 | military.com | Lena Andrews

Loading your audio article Twenty years before the Navy would make use of her extraordinary knowledge of the sea, Mary Sears was an undergraduate at Radcliffe College. There, she spent most days at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, studying marine invertebrates. Sears, then a short, bespectacled, and unassuming young woman of twenty-two, was enamored with the work she was doing. She was a born scientist, fascinated by amphibians—frogs and salamanders in particular—from a young age.