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Kathleen McGrath

Age: 50

U.S. Navy captain who became the first woman to command a warship. She led the USS Jarrett in a 6-month-long mission to the Persian Gulf to track down ships smuggling Iraqi oil. She died of lung cancer.

Died: Bethesda, Md., Sept. 26, 2002

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