Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Journalist Michelle Young talked about the background and personal life of Rose Valland, a female spy who worked for the French Resistance at the Jeu ...

World War II was the first time in history that women were trained as combatants and secret agents to be parachuted behind enemy lines. This was the war in which old gender rules changed, as ...

Many thanks to the dozens of readers who wrote in after last month’s bonus War Room about the Battle of Hastings, to nominate ...

"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 ...

When Winston Churchill christened the clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) in 1940, Britain had spent the previous decade appeasing Nazi Germany. In the House of Commons, Churchill gave a ...

The women were sent to Europe to clear a backlog of 17 million pieces of mail waiting to be sent to U.S. troops. By Karoun Demirjian Reporting from Washington The only all-Black, all-female Army ...

Thousands of books and films have been made over the past 80 years celebrating the bravery of American servicemen during World War II. But what about the 25 American women pilots who also risked their ...