World War II Honoree

Ann Kathleen Cullen

Hometown

Larchmont, New York

Honored By

Thomas Ernst

At the age of 26, she was the first American Red Cross girl to die through enemy action on the Western front. A German artillery shell struck a U.S. hospital on December 20, 1944 in Belgium. She joined American Red Cross in June 1943 and after one year's service in England, she was sent to the continent. She is buried in a military cemetery in Belgium.