In “Spitfires” by Becky Aikman, the saga of wartime American women pilots comes vividly to life.

Banned from flying in the U.S., these 25 American women headed to Britain to help ferry military aircraft—and fascinated the ...

May 8 marks 80 years since people across Europe celebrated the Allied victory over Nazi Germany. While the fighting in the ...

It is estimated that about 16 million Americans served in the armed forces during the course of World War II ... during the course of the war. American women joined the farm workforce in greater ...

The Six Triple Eight cleared a years-long backlog of mail in just three months. Eighty years later, the unit is finally ...

He made it known that he didn’t like pushy women and thought that ... although she was the first American woman cleared to fly during World War II, before her country even joined the fight.

The women were sent to Europe to clear a backlog of 17 million pieces of mail waiting to be sent to U.S. troops.

The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion was the only one comprised of Black women to be sent overseas during World War ...

Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum Rosie the Riveter called women to join ... 50 workers at North American Aviation in Los Angeles pose together during World War II, gathered around a section ...

The battalion was tasked with cleaning out the massive backlog filled with more than 17 million pieces of mail that left troops without any communications from their families for months.