"They never got a salute," a daughter of one of the women said. The only all-Black, all-female battalion to serve in World War II in the U.S. and in Europe is set to be awarded the Congressional Gold ...

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 ...

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 ...

The future memorial, which will be paid for by private donations, will be located within walking distance of the National World War II Memorial.

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 ...

Jackie Moggridge was 18 when she arrived in England with dreams of becoming an airline pilot. In 1938 there were no aeronautical colleges in South Africa so she came to Witney, Oxfordshire, where she ...

Meet the women who were the "secret weapon" that won the war and changed the world in the process. Meet the American women who built the planes and flew them, fought on the warfront and the home front ...

Vision Films Inc. ("Vision") has set February 3, 2026 for the North American Transactional VOD release date for the Gregory S. Cooke's documentary feature film Invisible Warriors: African American ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Left to right, top) Melissa Tanzillo, apprentice welder; Jocelyn Mak, structural steel welder; Dori Luzbetak, volunteer; Angel ...

West Virginia University research has revealed negative intergenerational reproductive health effects from the Japanese American detainment camps of World War II. Women who had likely been ...