Editing Silver Star (section)

===Female recipients===
Three Army nurses that served in World War I were cited in 1919 and 1920 with Citation Stars for gallantry in attending to the wounded while under artillery fire in July 1918. In 2007, it was discovered that they had never been awarded their Citation Stars. The three nurses (Army nurses served without rank until 1920) were awarded the Silver Star Medal posthumously:<ref name="auto">{{cite journal |title=The Overlooked Heroines: Three Silver Star Nurses of World War I |first1=Richard M. |last1=Prior |first2=William Sanders |last2=Marble |date=1 May 2008 |journal=Military Medicine |volume=173 |issue=5 |pages=493–498 |doi=10.7205/milmed.173.5.493 |pmid=18543572 |doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Daughter Accepts Silver Star Her World War I Nurse Mother Earned |url=https://www.army.mil/article/4259/daughter-accepts-silver-star-her-world-war-i-nurse-mother-earned/ |website=United States Army |access-date=9 October 2012 |date=2 August 2007}}</ref>
* [[Jane Rignel]] – Mobile Hospital No. 2, [[42nd Infantry Division (United States)|42nd Division]], for gallantry in "giving aid to the wounded under heavy fire" in France on 15 July 1918
* Linnie Leckrone – Shock Team No. 134, Field Hospital No. 127, [[32nd Infantry Division (United States)|32nd Division]], for gallantry while "attending to the wounded during an artillery bombardment" in France on 29 July 1918
* Irene Robar – Shock Team No. 134, Field Hospital No. 127, 32nd Division, for gallantry while "attending to the wounded during an artillery bombardment" in France on 29 July 1918

An unknown number of servicewomen received the award in World War II. Four Army nurses serving in Italy during the war—[[First Lieutenant]] Mary Roberts, [[Second Lieutenant]] [[Elaine Roe]], Second Lieutenant Rita Virginia Rourke, and Second Lieutenant [[Ellen Ainsworth]] (posthumous)—became the first women recipients of the Silver Star, all cited for their bravery in evacuating the 33rd Field Hospital at [[Anzio]] on 10 February 1944.<ref name=foxnews /> Later that same year, Corporal [[Maggie Leones]], a Filipino who later immigrated to the United States, received the medal for [[Clandestine operation|clandestine]] activities on [[Luzon]];<ref>{{cite news |last=Drummond |first=Tammerlin |date=17 June 2016 |title=Filipina Silver Star winner, Richmond resident Magdalena Leones dies at 95 |url=http://www.eastbaytimes.com/breaking-news/ci_30029083/filipina-silver-star-winner-richmond-resident-magdalena-leones |newspaper=East Bay Times |access-date=18 June 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://valor.militarytimes.com/recipient.php?recipientid=88163 |title=Magdalena Leones |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |website=Military Times Hall of Valor |access-date=18 June 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Leonardo Q. |last=Nuval |title=Remember Them Kindly: Some Filipinos During World War II |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ib9wAAAAMAAJ|year=1996 |publisher=Claretian Publications |isbn=978-971-501-678-0 |page=31}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Guillermo |first=Emil |date=5 July 2016 |title=Magdalena Leones, Filipina WWII Silver Star Recipient Who Aided MacArthur, Dies in California |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/magdalena-leones-filipina-wwii-silver-star-recepient-who-aided-macarthur-n603566 |work=NBC News |access-date=15 March 2018}}</ref> {{as of|2016|lc=y}}, she is the only female Asian to receive a Silver Star.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=21 June 2016 |title=Only Filipina WWII US Silver Star recipient dies at 95 |url=http://globalnation.inquirer.net/140317/only-asian-female-wwii-us-silver-star-recipient-dies-at-95 |newspaper=[[Philippine Daily Inquirer]] |location=Makati City |access-date=15 March 2018 |quote=Filipino WWII veterans and her family members mourn the passing of Cpl. Magdalena Estoista Leones, 95, who entered the history books as the only Asian female to have been awarded the Silver Star in World War II for gallantry in action against an enemy of the United States.}}</ref>

The next known servicewomen to receive the Silver Star were Army National Guard [[Sergeant]] [[Leigh Ann Hester]] in 2005, for gallantry during an insurgent ambush on a convoy in [[Iraq]]<ref name=foxnews /> and Army [[Specialist (rank)|Specialist]] [[Monica Lin Brown]] in March 2008, for extraordinary heroism as a [[combat medic]] in the [[War in Afghanistan (2001–present)|War in Afghanistan]].<ref name=foxnews>{{cite news |last=Abrashi |first=Fisnik |title=Medic Stationed in Afghanistan Becomes 2nd Woman to Be Awarded Silver Star |work=[[Fox News]] |agency=[[Associated Press]] |date=9 March 2008 |url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/medic-stationed-in-afghanistan-becomes-2nd-woman-to-be-awarded-silver-star}}</ref>

On November 12, 2024, Capt Lacie “Sonic” Hester, [[494th Fighter Squadron]], became the first woman airman awarded the Silver Star for her role in the shootdown of more than 80 Iranian drones launched at Israeli cities.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Skovlund |first=Joshua |date=2024-11-15 |title=Air Force captain becomes first woman in service history to receive Silver Star as crews honored for drone fight |url=https://taskandpurpose.com/news/first-female-air-force-silver-star-recipient/#:~:text=U.S.%20Air%20Force%20Capt.,to%20receive%20the%20Silver%20Star. |access-date=2024-12-16 |website=Task & Purpose |language=en-US}}</ref>