Adams, Fae Margaret (1918–)

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Adams, Fae Margaret (1918–)

American doctor. Born in San Jose, California, 1918.

Served as a 1st lieutenant and reserve medical officer in the Women's Army Corps, becoming the 1st female doctor to receive a regular US Army commission (1953); after the military, practiced gynecology and obstetrics in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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