Beatrice Mary MacDonald
Beatrice Mary MacDonald ( September 27 , 1881 – September 4 , 1969 ) , an American Army nurse during World War I , received a Purple Heart for combat wounds on January 4 , 1936 , making her retroactively the first women to receive the award . 
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