West Point In Vintage Photos

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Cadet Kristin Baker has a Huckleberry Finn look to her, but don’t be fooled. She shattered tradition at an unlikely place, the military academy at West Point, New York, which first admitted women in 1976. Thirteen years later, she was selected Brigade Commander and First Captain of the Corps of Cadets, titles she shared with Robert E Lee and Douglas MacArthur. Colorized