1935 Los Angeles City College Field Hockey Team at Griffith park. Susan Ahn is in front

1935 Los Angeles City College Field Hockey Team at Griffith park. Susan Ahn is in front row, 3rd from right. 

The U.S. Navy initially rejected Susan Ahn Cuddy when she applied for officer training because she was Asian and anti-miscegenation laws in Virginia prevented her from marrying Frank Cuddy, an Irish American. The type who doesn’t take no for an answer, Cuddy became the Navy’s first female gunnery officer (that means she trained male pilots how to shoot 50-caliber machine guns) in 1944, went on to work for the National Security Agency where she had 300 intelligence specialists under her command, and did marry her Irishman with whom she had two children.