THE HEROIC STORY OF LLOYD CORTEZ HAWKS OF BECKER, A SERGEANT FIRST CLASS IN TJE U.S. ARMY...

 Lloyd Cortez Hawks of Becker, Minnesota, a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army, was awarded the Medal of Honor for his extraordinary actions on January 30, 1944, near Carano, Italy.

Hawks joined the Army in 1942 and by January 30, 1944 was serving as a private first class in the Medical Detachment of the 30th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division. On January 30, 1944, near, Carano, Italy, he crawled through intense enemy fire to aid two wounded men. He dragged one man to safety but was severely wounded after rescuing the second. 

For his actions on January 30, 1944, he was awarded the Medal of Honor. Hawks remained in the Army after World War II, and later served in the Korean War, reaching the rank of sergeant first class. He died at the age of 42 of a heart attack and in buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Park Rapids, Minnesota.

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Ruth Cheney Streeter of Brookline, Massachusetts, was an American military officer who was the first director of the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve (USMCWR).

In 1943, she became the first woman to attain the rank of major in the United States Marine Corps when she was commissioned as a major on January 29, 1943. She retired in 1945 as a lieutenant colonel.

At the age of 47, Streeter earned her commercial pilot's license, with the intention of joining either the WAVES or the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPS) as a ferry pilot in the war effort. 

After being rejected five times by the WASPS on account of her age, Streeter chose to give up flying altogether, and instead joined the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve. On January 29, 1943, she was commissioned as a major and appointed director of the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve.

 She was in office on the official creation date of MCWR on February 13, 1943. She was promoted to lieutenant colonel later that year, and breveted to full colonel in 1944. On October 31, 1945 she was awarded the Legion of Merit. She resigned her commission on December 6, 1945. During Streeter's tenure, the Women's Reserve grew to a size of 831 officers and 17,714 enlisted.

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