WASP pilot Gertrude Tomkins Silver crashed off Calif. coast in 1944. Oct. 8, 2009 — -- The fog rolled in from Santa Monica Bay just after noon on Oct. 26, 1944, just three hours before Gertrude ...

Netflix's new WWII drama The Six Triple Eight is based on the real-life exploits of the all-black, all-women 6888th Battalion, which reopened lines of communication between the front lines and the ...

Includes the little-known feats of female journalists, nurses and guerilla fighters. The little-known feats of journalists, nurses, and guerilla fighters take center stage. Female war correspondents ...

Brave women across Europe risked it all to battle against Hitler ’s Nazi hordes behind enemy lines. Brave women across Europe risked everything to battle against Hitler ’s Nazi hordes behind enemy ...

Many believe women in World War II were limited to nursing, but the reality is far more complex. From pilots and spies to ...

CHERRY HILL, N.J. (CBS) — About 350,000 women served during World War II, which is roughly 2% of all the Americans who served, according to the National World War II Museum. May Brill, of Cherry Hill, ...

U.S. Navy World War II veteran Elizabeth “Betty” Barrett, 104, smiles as her daughter speaks about her life in the military ...

COURSE, IT WOULD GO ON TO CHANGE THE COURSE OF WORLD WAR TWO. IN THE COMING DAYS, DOZENS OF WORLD DIGNITARIES AND VETERANS ARE ARRIVING IN NORMANDY TO COMMEMORATE THE HISTORIC INVASION, INCLUDING SOME ...

When World War II broke out, American women joined the effort by manning switchboards, riveting together airplanes and nursing wounded soldiers back to health. But due to discriminatory military ...

LOUISIANA (KLFY) — During World War II, the mail system in Europe was backlogged by more than two years. This resulted in U.S. soldiers being unable to get mail or send letters to their loved ones ...

Namwene Mukabwa is a Collider author based in Nairobi, Kenya. He has a penchant for Westerns, classics, historical, and underrated movies and television series. He became hooked on screens at the age ...

YOUNTVILLE — Inside a bedroom scarcely larger than a walk-in closet, souvenirs of a nearly century-long life are within view. Taped to the wall is a snapshot of a Japanese friend from the late 1960s; ...