This Navy Destroyer's New Battle Flag Pays Tribute to the Service's First Female Nurses

Mihaela Măncilă

The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee, named for the pioneering Navy nurse and Navy Cross recipient, debuted a new battle flag as it pulled into port in San Diego in early March, according to publicly available imagery published to social media. The flag consists of a golden number 20 encircled by 20 gold stars on a navy blue background in what appears to be a tribute to the “Sacred Twenty,” the first group of women to officially serve in the U.S. Navy that

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