Bea Arthur became one of the first women to join the U.S. Marine Corps Women’s Reserve. Arthur — then known as Bernice Frankel — joined the Marines in 1943 during World War II, just five days after they began recruiting women, according to the National World War II Museum.
Arthur served as a typist at the Marine Corps headquarters in Washington D.C. before becoming a truck driver and dispatcher at the Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina, between 1944 and 1945 and then left the military at the rank of staff sergeant.
Arthur isn’t the only famous name whose contributions were scrubbed, legendary baseball player Jackie Robinson, who was the first Black player in Major League Baseball, was also removed from the DoD website.
And because anything with the word “gay” in it apparently can’t be allowed to stay on the DoD website, photos of the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan are also marked for deletion by the administration, alongside photos of the first women to pass Marine infantry training, the Associate Press reports.