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![](http://images02.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2023-03/ching%20shih%201200.jpg?itok=0MBEI37y "Sometimes called, Zheng Yi Sao or "Wife of Zheng Yi," she's known to history as Ching Shih for what she accomplished once he died.")
![](http://images03.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2023-03/1time%20josefina%20guerrero%20leper%20spy%201200.jpg?itok=5F001T0c "Josefina "Joey" Guerrero delivered critical information on Japanese defenses in Manila to the United States.")
![](http://images03.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2023-02/1time%20beauty%20queen%20remedios%20gomez%201200.jpg?itok=3qPhg8B8 "World War II guerrilla leader Remedios Gomez depicted by Carina Febie Agustin in Myra Aquino's 2021 short film "Beauty Queen."")
