Margaret Utinsky helped smuggle aid to American POWs in the Philippines under a false identity, surviving torture for her wartime defiance.

Lakshmi Sahgal commanded the Rani of Jhansi Regiment during WWII, leading India’s first all-women combat unit in armed resistance against colonial rule.

Captain Nieves Fernández led Philippine guerrilla fighters in Leyte during World War II, becoming one of the war’s most fearless and tactically brilliant resistance leaders.