Myrtle Hazard

Myrtle Hazard
A young white woman with short hair, wearing a US Coast Guard Uniform, from a 1918 photograph.
Myrtle Hazard in her Coast Guard uniform, 1918.
Born
Myrtle Rae Holthaus

1892
Baltimore
DiedMay 19, 1951 (aged 58–59)
Baltimore
Other namesMyrtle Gambrill (after second marriage)
OccupationElectrician's Mate
Known forFirst woman to enlist in the U. S. Coast Guard (1918)

Myrtle Rae Holthaus Hazard (1892 – May 19, 1951), later Myrtle Gambrill, was an American electrician and radio operator in the United States Coast Guard during World War I. She was the first woman to enlist in the Coast Guard, and the only woman to serve in the Coast Guard during World War I.