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Could Women Only Be Nurses in WWII?

Many believe women in World War II were limited to nursing, but the reality is far more complex. From pilots and spies to ...
Meet the fearless women who played the ultimate game of spies. Secrets, danger, and daring missions? These ladies have all that and more.
Filmmaker David Massar didn’t plan to make a documentary when he joined writer John Thomas on a research trip to Kalamazoo, ...
A coalition of retired military nurses and others is pushing to award the Congressional Gold Medal to World War II nurses.
In a desolate corner of the Port of Richmond, dozens of women wearing polka-dot handkerchiefs and wielding blowtorches have spent the last two weeks volunteering their time to try to weld a piece of ...
Tributes have been paid to Sheffield’s last World War Two Women of Steel campaigner, Kathleen Roberts, after her death aged ...
"Throughout America’s history, many brave citizens who answer the call of duty and serve their country remain unknown and ...
A Veterans Day ceremony in Washington honored the 16 million members of the U.S. armed forces who served in World War II.
When it comes to historical fiction books about war, the options are endless. Whether you want to read about The Civil War, World War I, World War II, The Cold War, The Vietnam War or any other ...
Two women have saved a war poet's work from being lost - twice over and more than 100 years apart. Only 24, Nowell Oxland died in World War One in 1915, nine days before one of his poems, about his ...
For the American World War II veterans, all in their late 90s or early 100s, the event marked what will be one of the last times they gather to publicly relay what they endured and how it shaped them.