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

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

ending World War II in Europe. A new book, "Spitfires," tells the little known contribution 25 American women made to that outcome by flying combat aircraft not for U.S. forces, which denied them ...

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.

Julia Parsons, a U.S. Navy code-breaker during World War II who kept a military ... “Julia was a pioneer for women’s roles in American Society,” said Todd DePastino of Mt.

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.

When World War II came to Palm Beach County and the Treasure ... the Biltmore was the first dedicated school for the Coast Guard Women’s Reserve. And The Breakers in Palm Beach became Ream ...

The realities of World War II ... million. During Gorbachev’s time, the USSR acknowledged 27 million. After the USSR collapsed and historians accessed the archives, estimates in the mid-1990s reached ...

Europe will commemorate the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany's surrender on May 8. But thousands of locals remain committed ...