Peterson, a researcher and author, joined The Lift to discuss women’s roles during World War II ahead of a talk on Thursday ...
According to most official accounts, Georgia Watson did not exist. As part of a highly secretive Army unit, composed almost entirely of women responsible for defending D.C. against an air attack, ...
Italian women kept people alive long enough to keep fighting. Women served as nurses, assisted wounded partisans and sick ...
It will never cease to amaze me how many tales are still to be told of the sacrifices heroic men and women made to defeat the Nazis in World War II. Here we are, 80 years from the end of this ...
The concert will honor and remember veterans of World War II, in particular the women who served the nation in many capacities, who will be in attendance. For our nation, World War II began in ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion was the only unit comprised entirely of Black women to have been deployed overseas during World War ...
Stelena Hooper Evans, daughter of Mildred Hooper, a private first class in the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, is appreciative of the applause while being introduced before the Six Triple ...
CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) — The National Association of Black Military Women is committed to telling “HERstory.” “We only have one simple mission — that is to tell the story and history of Black military ...
This week, women gathered in downtown Chicago to advocate for justice for one of the darkest and least talked about legacies of World War II, the forced slavery of “comfort women.” “Their stories are ...
Correspondent photo / Sean Barron Marilyn Mong of Leetonia holds a photograph of four Women Airforce Service Pilots before a lecture she gave Saturday in the old St. James Episcopal Church in Boardman ...
Women in Allied countries during World War II wore red lipstick because Germany's Nazi Chancellor Adolf Hitler hated it. This is true. We found that this fact actually gave rise to enduring lipstick ...