[2][3] Hazard, who survived polio as a girl,[4] learned radio and telegraph skills in an evening course offered at the YMCA in Baltimore.

[4] As there was no official women's uniform, she chose her own ensemble, a middy blouse and a blue pleated skirt.

[5] (Wartime newspapers erroneously reported that twin sisters Genevieve and Lucille Baker were the first women to serve in the Coast Guard; in fact, while they tried to enlist during the war, they were not accepted.

[9] "I like to think I helped prove that women can contribute more to national defense than just waiting for the war to end," she told an interviewer in 1950.

[13] In 2019, her name was included in J. Luis Correa's address in Congress, honoring the Coast Guard on its 229th year.