Fae Margaret Adams (June 13, 1918 – December 16, 2022) was an American medical officer. She is best known as the first woman doctor to receive a regular US Army commission in 1953.
Biography Fae Margaret Adams was born on , in San Jose, California, US.
She started studying medicine at Berkeley, but enlisted shortly afterwards and therefore did not graduate.
Adams started her career in the Women's Army Corps in 1943. She got her M.D. while under G.I rights from [Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania]] while serving in the army.
In 1953, she became the first female doctor to be commissioned in the Regular Army. At that time, she was 34, a First Lieutenant, and planned to specialize in gynecology and obstetrics.
She is a veteran of World War II, as well as Korean War and Vietnam War.
She died on , at age 104, and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
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